March 28, 2004

                          POST- WWll CHANGES IN ASIA

1.     Why were the Chinese communists able to defeat Chaing Kai Shek and the Chinese Nationalists in 1949?

2.     How did Mao Zedong initially organize agricultural production in 1949?

3.     What was the Great Leap Forward program of 1958?

4.     What were the 2 goals of the Communist Revolution in China?

5.     What disagreements arose over these goals?

6.     What did Deng Xiaoping mean, when he said,  “It doesn’t matter whether the cat is black or white , as long as it catches mice”?

7.     What was the aim of  Mao’s “Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution” of 1966-1968?

      What were the results of the revolution?

8.     Over what issues did the Chinese and Soviets disagree - in the 1960’s?

9.     What were relations like between Communist China and the United States in the two decades following the Chinese Communist Revolution?

10. Why did the U.S. get involved in a land war in East Asia in the 1950’s?

11. Why did China enter the Korean War?

12. Why did China and the U.S. establish friendly relations in 1972?

13. What was the new economic policy developed in 1985 - called the “responsibility system”?

14. What changes occurred in Japan during the period the U.S. occupied that country (1945-1952)?

15. Why have the Japanese been so successful in business and foreign trade, since WWll?

16. Why do Japanese students do so well in school?

               Post World War ll Changes in Asia  (Part 2)

1.     How did the partitioning of India cause problems between India and Pakistan?

2.     What 2 Indian provinces were divided in creating the new nations of India and Pakistan?

3.     What territorial disputes still exist between India and Pakistan as a result of the 1947 partition?

4.     What were Jawaharlal Nehru’s main goals for India?

5.     What was the “Green Revolution” that India participated in?

6.     What are some of India’s major social and economic problems?

7.     Why does India have one of the most powerful militaries in Asia?

8.     Why did East Pakistan break away from West Pakistan to form the state of Bangladesh?

9.     What was India’s role in the Bangladesh secession from Pakistan?

10. What is India’s foreign policy like - today?

11. What is Pakistan’s foreign policy like - today?

Post WWll - Southeast Asia

12. Why did the U.S. aid the French in their attempt to regain control of Southeast Asia after WWll?

13. Why was Vietnam divided into 2 countries at the 17^th parallel in 1954?

14. Why weren’t the Geneva Accords of 1954 signed by South Vietnam and the U.S.?

15. Why did the Viet Cong, a South Vietnamese guerilla  group, start a civil war in South Vietnam in 1959?

16. How did the U.S. get involved in the Vietnam War?

17. Why did the U.S. commit over 550,000 troops to Vietnam in the late 1960’s?

18. Why was it difficult to defeat the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Viet Minh?

19. What was the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong “Tet Offensive” of Jan. 1968?

20. What was President Nixon’s “Vietnamization of the war” program?

21. What is the difference between authoritarian and totalitarian governments?

22. Why did authoritarian governments develop in Asia after World War ll?

23. Why did Asian countries face slow economic development in the post-WWll period? 

24. Why did Ferdinand Marcos’ 20 year rule of the Philippines be considered a good example of “authoritarian government” in Asia in the post-WWll period?

25. Why did Singapore secede from the Federation of Malaysia?

26. How did Pol Pot’s regime affect Cambodia?

27. What problems did Thailand experience in the late 1970’s?

28. Who was the Indonesian nationalist who forced the Dutch out of Indonesia?