Honors History of East Asia

 

Transition – Review Guide

 

Be able to answer the following:

  1. Why were the Communists successful in China?
  2. Describe the causes, events, and effects of the Korean War.
  3. What were the U.S. goals in occupying Japan? What reforms were made in Japan during the Occupation? In what ways was the occupation a success for both sides? Why was it a success?

 

Be able to identify the following terms:

 

Chinese Civil War (1945-1949)

  1. Chiang Kai-shek
  2. Nationalists
  3. “Giving up space to save time”
  4. Conscription
  5. Communists
  6. Mao Zedong
  7. “sparrow warfare”
  8. Voluntarism
  9. “tunnel warfare”
  10. Yanan Spirit
  11. Land Reform
  12. Literacy campaigns
  13. Voting
  14. Rights for women
  15. October 1, 1949
  16. The People’s Republic of China (PRC)
  17. The Republic of China (ROC)

 

The Korean War (1950-1953)

  1. The Cairo Conference
  2. The Yalta Conference
  3. 38th Parallel
  4. The Ongjin Peninsula
  5. The 2nd American Betrayal
  6. Occupation Zones
  7. Collaborators
  8. Land Reform
  9. The Republic of Korea (ROK)
  10. Syngman Rhee
  11. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)
  12. Kim Il-sung
  13. Differences between North and South as a result of the Japanese Occupation
  14. Guerrilla Warfare
  15. Soviet Atomic Test (1949)
  16. The Acheson Line
  17. June 25, 1950
  18. The Bridge at No Gun Ri
  19. Inchon
  20. “Resist America, Aid Korea”
  21. Buffer State
  22. Armistice Line
  23. DMZ
  24. Current American troop presence in Korea

 

The Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952)

  1. General Douglas MacArthur
  2. Hirohito (Showa)
  3. Renunciation of Divinity
  4. Zaibatsu
  5. Mitsubishi
  6. Nissan
  7. Mitsui
  8. Akira Kurosawa
  9. SCAP
  10. Tojo Hideki
  11. War Crimes Tribunal
  12. The Japanese Constitution (1947)
  13. Constitutional Monarchy
  14. Parliamentary Democracy
  15. The Diet
  16. Enumerated Rights
  17. “Symbol of the State”
  18. Article 9
  19. Judicial Review in Japan
  20. America’s “unsinkable aircraft carrier”
  21. Yoshida Shigeru
  22. “A gift from the gods”
  23. “Divine aid”
  24. The Reverse Course
  25. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
  26. SDF
  27. San Francisco Peace Treaty
  28. Mutual Security Treaty (1952-1960)
  29. Extraterritoriality
  30. Current American troop presence in Japan
  31. Okinawa