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Nationalist group originally controlled by Dr. Sun Yat Sen and then Sun’s successor Chaing Kai Shek. Fought the Communists in the Chinese Civil War and fled to Taiwan after losing.
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| took over the Guomindang/Kuomintang after the death of Sun Yat Sen in 1921 and controlled China as a dictator. He battled for control of China with Mao Zedong and the Communists. He was forced to flee to Taiwan where he set up a government independent of China in 1949. |
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| Mao and the Communists were chased throughout China by Chiang Kai Shek. During this campaign Mao gained many followers who eventually helped him to overthrow Chaing Kai Shek and make China Communist. |
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| Communist leader of China who led the Communist overthrow of Chaing Kai Shek. |
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| This is the name of China’s government after Mao made it Communist. |
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| Protest by college students against the government calling for an increased democratic role in government by the citizens of China. The Chinese government sent in the military to disperse the protest killing and wounding many protestors. This led to an international outcry over China’s human rights policies. |
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| Mao’s economic policy where he attempted to catch up to the world quickly. Instead of Mao using new technology (which he didn’t have) he wanted to use the large population of China to do manual labor to catch up. He put farmers on communes and created backyard furnaces in the cities. This policy was a huge failure and led to famine in which it is estimated that up to 20 million Chinese died from hunger. |
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| group of peasant farmers who were ordered to farm land as a group not as individuals. The farmers had a government quota they had to meet as a group. |
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| Large government owned farms that peasant farmers were forced to work in during the Great Leap Forward. The peasants were ordered to work six days a week and for long hours in order to provide food for the cities. These were huge failures and led to famine. |
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| After the failure of the Great Leap Forward Mao looked to rid China of people he considered “anti-revolutionary” by having his Red Guard made up of students hunt down teachers, managers, ex-landlords, etc. This is another Mao policy that led to disaster by harming the educated in his country. |
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| Group of close advisors to Mao who tried to take over the Chinese government after Mao died. The coup failed and the Gang of Four was put in jail. |
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| Mao’s successor who moved away from a strict version of communism and incorporated elements of capitalism into China’s economy. |
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| Deng Xiaoping’s economic policy which incorporated capitalism by allowing for farmers and managers to sell surplus products for profit. Deng’s policy focused on improving industry, agriculture, military and science. |
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| Also known as the one child policy. Citizens of China are only permitted to have one child per couple to try and slow China’s population growth. If couples have more than one child then the government punishes the family by forcing them to pay fines or higher taxes. This policy has led to extreme actions by some Chinese citizens including selling of their children and infanticide |
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| Areas in China where foreign nations are allowed to come in and build factories and use China’s cheap labor and low taxes to produce products to be sold worldwide. |
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| the population being ethnically similar |
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| A body of land surrounded by water on three sides. |
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| Korea is considered to be the bridge between China and Japan. Many ideas have been culturally diffused through Korea between these three cultures. |
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| Part of the Cold War. North Korea was communist after WWII and South Korea was non-communist. North Korea attacked South Korea to try and unify the peninsula so the U.N. sent troops (mostly U.S.) to stop the spread of communism. |
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| The belief that if one country in a region of the world fell to communism the rest of that region would fall to communism. |
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| The U.S. policy to stop the spread of communism which included N.A.T.O. and the Marshall Plan. |
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| Agreement to stop fighting until a treaty can be signed. |
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| The line of latitude where Korea was divided before and after the Korean War. |
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| what some countries have referred to South Korea as because of its economic success using capitalism. |
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| Former dictator of communist North Korea. He was frowned upon by the international community for Human Rights abuses and censorship. |
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| North Korean policy of independence – despite at times having desperate situations including famine North Korea has continued the policy of not asking for international support. |
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| leader who battled for control of China with warlords after the fall of the Qing (Manchu) Dynasty. He promoted nationalism, livelihood and democracy and was able to gain control of most of China before he died in 1921. |
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| The U.S. asked that countries that had a sphere of influence in China to allow other countries to trade in their sphere. The countries who had a sphere denied the U.S. request. |
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| uprising by the Chinese against the Qing (Manchu) Dynasty because they were upset that foreigners were controlling China. The uprising was defeated by the government and foreign coalition forces. |
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| An uprising by Chinese nationalists against foreigners. A coalition of foreign nations went to China to put down the Boxer Rebellion. The Chinese were forced to sign another unfair treaty. |
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| Last Dynastic leader of China. When she died in 1908 the Qing (Manchu) dynasty crumbled. |
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