2nd Trimester Cold War Asia Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
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 Decolonization | the undoing of colonialism--the unequal relation of nations where by one person or nation establishes and maintains power and control over dependent governments. |
| 38th Parallel | a dividing line for Korea in 1896. A line of division proposed by Japan to Russia (since Russia attempted to take control and Japan had received rights in Korea from the British), to create two separate spheres of influence. |
| North Korea | the Soviet Union's sphere of influence. In 1945, the Soviet Army created a Soviet Civil Authority to rule the country until a USSR friendly, domestic regime was to be created. |
| South Korea | the antagonism between the Soviet Union and the US led to the establishment of 2 separate Korean governments. This one was overrules by the US and Syngman Rhee was installed as president. |
| Korean War | a military conflict between the South (supported by the UN) and North Korea (supported by China and the Soviet Union). It was a result of the political division of Korea by agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War. |
| Domino Theory | a foreign policy theory that was promoted by the US, speculating that if one land in a region came under the influence of communism, the surrounding countries would follow in a DOMINO effect. |
| South East Asia Treaty Organization | an international organiation for collective defense, primarily created to block further communism gains in southeast Asia. Signed by--Australia, France, New Zealand, thailand, Pakistan, Philippines, Taiwan (Republic of China), the UK, the US, and support from South Korea and Vietnam. |
| French Indochina | part of the French colonial empire in southeast Asia. A federation of 3 Vietnamese regions, Tonkin, Annam, and Cochinchina, as well as Cambodia. |
| Ho Chi Minh | a Vietnamese Marxist revolutionary leader who was prime minister and president of North Vietnam. The capital and the trail of supplies from the North to South was named after him. |
| Vietminh | a national independence movement founded in south China, initially formed to seek independence for Vietnam from the French, later opposed the US in the Vietnam War. |
| Viet Cong | a political organization and army of South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the US and south Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War. |
| Vietnam War | cold war military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, 1955-1975. was fought between North Vietnam and its communist allies vs. South Vietnam, US, and other anti-communist nations. |
| Ho Chi Minh Trail | a logistical system that ran from North vietnam to South Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia. It provided manpower and materiel to the Vietcong and the People's Army of Vietnam (North Vietnamese army). |
| Tet Offensive | a military campaign during the war to strike military and civilian command and control centers throughout South vietnam and to spark a general uprising among the population that would then topple the Saigon government. |
| Paris Agreement | intended to establish peace in Vietnam and an end to the Vietnam conflict, ended direct US military involvement and temporarily stopped the fighting between the north and south. |
| Chinese Civil War | a civil war fought between the KMT, the Republic of China, and the Communist Party of China, for the control of China which eventually led to China's division into the Republic of China (Taiwan) and People's Republic of China. |
| People's Republic of China | a populous state created after the Chinese Civil War, government by the Communist Party of China. |
| Great Leap Forward | lead by Mao Zedong, this economic and social campaign of the Chinese Communist Party reflected in planning decisions aimed to use China's vast population to transform the country into a modern communist society through the process of agriculturalization, industrialization, and collectivization. |
| Cultural Revolution | a violent mass movement in China, 1966-1976 with Mao's death. It resulted in social, political, and economic upheaval, widespread persecution, and the destruction of antiques historical sites, and culture. |
| Deng Xiaoping | chinese politician, statesman, theorist, and diplomat, he was a reformer who led China towards a market economy. |
| Tiananmen Square | a large city square in the center of Beijing, named after the Tiananmen Gate, this square held the series of demonstrations led by students and intellectuals after the collapse of a number of communist governments around the world--The Tiananmen Square massacre. |
| Partition of India and Pakistan | the partition of British India and of the Dominion of Pakistan, promulgated in the Indian Independence Act 1947 and resulted in the dissolution of the British Indian Empire. |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | an Indian statesman who was the 1st (and to this day the longest-serving) prime minister of India, from 1947-1964. He led the newly independent nation during India's first years of freedom from British rule. The Soviet Union and the US competed to make India an ally. |
| Kashmir | the disputed northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent, claimed by both India and Pakistan, with some areas also claimed by China. |
| Indira Gandhi | prime minister of the Republic of India, the only female prime minister of India and the world's all time longest serving female prime minister. |
| Bangladesh | bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma (Myanmar). Borders were created with the Partition of Bengal and India, when the region became East Pakistan, but separated from the western wing by Indian territory. |
| Benazir Bhutto | a pakistani politician who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party and the first woman elected to lead a Muslim State. She has been elected twice and was Pakistan's first and only female prime minister. She heavily focused on education or women's issues. |
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