Communism In China
1) What is nationalism?
2) What is independence? 3) Describe communism? 4) In China’s civil war, what two groups fought during the 20th century? 5) Name the leaders of both groups. 6) What was the outcome of the conflict? 7) Identify and explain the Great Leap forward. Was it successful? 8) Identify and explain the Cultural Revolution? 9) Describe the Tiananmen Square protest? |
1) Nationalism is loyalty to a group whom one shares a common history, culture, and religion.
2) Independence is freedom from the control, influence, support, aid, or the like, of others. 3) Communism is an economic system where wealth is distributed evenly to everybody. 4) Nationalist and the Communist 5) Kai-shek and Mao Zedong 6) The communist under Mao won. The nationalists escaped to Taiwan, and Mao Zedong, who later became the first president of the People's Republic of China and chairman of the Communist Party of China 7) The Great Leap forward was an effort made by the Communist Party of China under the leadership of Mao Zedong to transform China into a society capable of competing with other industrialized nations, within a short, five-year time period. 8) The Cultural Revolution depicts Mao Zedong, above a group of soldiers from the People's Liberation Army. The caption says, "The Chinese People's Liberation Army is the great school of Mao Zedong Thought." 9) Tiananmen Square in Chinese, were student-led popular demonstrations in Beijing, which took place in the spring of 1989 and received broad support from city residents, exposing deep splits within China's political leadership. |
India Independence
1) India became a colony of which country in 1776?
2) What took form in India? What was the movement called? Who led the movement? How did he lead the movement? 3) What is civil disobedience? 4) What two other famous people were inspired by India’s movement? Describe what was changed. 5) What is satyagraha? 6) Describe what happened to British and India in 1947? What was the religion of each country? 7) Describe the result of independence after 1947. 8) What is the Indian National Congress? What is the salt march? What happened to Gandhi in the end and why? |
1) India became the colony of Great Britain in 1776
2) Nationalism is what formed in India. It is called The Independence Movement. Gandhi led the movement. He led them by bringing worldwide attention to the Indian independence movement by practicing satyagraha 3) Gandhi’s same non-violent principals of civil disobedience, boycotts, and marches inspired Martin Luther King Jr.’s fight for civil rights in the USA and Nelson Mandela’s fight against apartheid in South Africa. 4) Martin Luther King Jr.’s fight for civil rights in the USA and Nelson Mandela’s fight against apartheid in South Africa. 5) Satyagraha is using nonviolence to achieve change. 6) British were divided into two different countries: India and Pakistan. India was a Hindu majority country, while Pakistan was a country with a Muslim majority 7) Since their independence, India and Pakistan have both claimed Kashmir, a region in the Himalayas, and have fought several wars for control of it. 8) The Indian National Congress is on of the two major political parties in India. The salt march is a various campaign that was against the British rule. In the end Gandhi was assassinated in less than six months by a Hindu extremist because he was unhappy with the settlement terms India had negotiated with Pakistan. |
Vietnam
Who took the form to fight for freedom in Vietnam and against who did they fight?
Who was the main independence leader? What type of government did he belong to? Explain what happened in 1954? Provide detail. What were the U.S. fears? Explain the U.S. response. Explain the containment of communism. Who colonized Vietnam and why? What countries make up French Indochina? What did U.S lawmakers believe would happen in South and East Asia. How was Vietnam divided after the French left? Who did the U.S. side with? Who fought against the U.S.? What tactics did they use? Explain how people in the U.S. viewed the war. What type of government does Vietnam have now? What type of economy do they have? What is the relationship like between the U.S and Vietnam now? |
Nationalism in Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh, Communist In 1954 the French gave up the fight and the Vietnam was divided into a communist of North and an anti-communist of South. The U.S was afraid of a communist takeover of the entire country. The US got involved in rebuilding Japan because they feared the spread of Communism they weren’t trying to remove it from where it already existed but they wanted to contain it and keep it out of new places. France for it valuable exports, rice and rubber. Laos and Cambodia They believed that if Vietnam became Communist than the rest of Asia would to. Communist North Vietnam and anti-Communist South Vietnam The South's anti-Communist North Vietnam, they fired torpedoes They thought it would have been an easy fight for the American they also thought that the protesters were putting U.S soldiers in danger by weakening support for them. They mostly have Communist Government. A market economy. The U.S and the Vietnam have a friendly relationship. |
At the end of WWII, what parallel marked the dividing line between North and South Korea?
Describe the economies and governments of both the North and South Korea? In 1950, who invaded? What was the U.S. response and why? How far did the U.S. push back North Korea? Why do you think the Chinese government joined North Korea? What was the outcome of the Korean War? How was colonizing the Korean peninsula before WWII ended? What is a colony? At what parallel was the Koreas split? Who helped North Korea establish a government? What type was established? Who helped establish South Koreas government? What was the Cold War? What did Kim Il Sung try to do? The United Nations led by mostly the US stopped them and led the US forces close to what border? Who responded? When did the Korean war end? Who negotiated a peace agreement with China? |
The 38th parallel
North Korea: Command economy, Communist South Korea: Market economy, Capitalist Troops from Communist North Korea US and South Korean troops continued to push the North Korean army. Almost to the Chinese border The US got involved because we feared the spread of Communism. There was a truce and peninsula remained divided into two separate nations. It never really worked Is any country that's ruled by another country The 38th parallel The Soviet Union. Communist American Forces North Korea invaded South Korea Reunite the peninsula under communist rule The Chinese Border Harry Truman, 1953 Gen. Dwight Eisenhower |