Deck 30: Toward the Pacific Century

Question 1

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Indira Gandhi

Answer 1

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Question 2

Discuss the rise of the "Little Tigers." What has enabled their economic growth? Give examples.

Answer 2

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Question 3

How did colonialism end in Southeast Asia? Why not earlier? Why did it occur earlier in some places than in others? Give examples.

Answer 3

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Question 4

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Congress Party

Question 5

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India's enforced sterilization

Question 6

Compare and contrast the changing roles of women in India, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Which region has shown the most progress; which has shown the least progress? To what do you attribute the pace of change for women in each country?

Question 7

Would the people of the Indian subcontinent have been better off if they had attained independence as one country, rather than two? Explain. Why you think as you do?

Question 8

Did Japanese militarism truly end with the 1951 constitution? Would a rearmed Japan make the world safer today? Why or why not?

Question 9

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"an orgy of blood"

Question 10

What evidence is there of the survival of Confucian values in the nations of East Asia? What Confucian values seem to have been lost? Why?

Question 11

Are there any aspects of post-1950 Japanese politics that reflect the continuation of pre-1940, even Meiji, influences and policies? If so, what are they and are they positive or negative in nature? If not, how was the post-World War II occupation regime able to erase all earlier traits?

Question 12

What factors assisted the rapid development of Korean industry and agriculture since the early 1960s? Were the same factors used in the same way, with the same results, in Taiwan? Show why or why not, citing evidence to support your position.

Question 13

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Hyderabad and Kashmir

Question 14

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the Pacific Century

Question 15

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Jawaharlal Nehru and "democratic socialism"

Question 16

Discuss the power of tradition in Indian society, even as it has faced social, economic and political changes. Has tradition hindered efforts to move forward? If so, how?

Question 17

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August 15, 1947

Question 18

What have been the most significant developments in India since the achievement of independence? Do recent events augur well for the future? Why or why not?

Question 19

How have the "everyday" options for women in Japan changed since World War II? Have these changes been advantageous for women and/or Japan as a whole? Why or why not?

Question 20

Discuss Pakistani development after independence. What have been the most influential events and trends there? Are the trends likely to continue? Why?

Question 21

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Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses

Question 22

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Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos and Corazon Aquino

Question 23

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Sikhs and the Golden Temple in Amritsar

Question 24

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guided democracy

Question 25

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Indonesia's General Suharto, B.J. Habibie, and Susilo Yudhyono

Question 26

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Bengali

Question 27

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harijans/dalits

Question 28

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Question 29

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Bangalore "

Question 30

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Tuol Sheng prison/Cambodian Holocaust

Question 31

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communalism

Question 32

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Sri Lanka and the Elam Tigers

Question 33

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sati/child marriage

Question 34

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West Pakistan and East Pakistan/Bangladesh

Question 35

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Rajiv Gandhi

Question 36

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al-Qaeda

Question 37

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and A. B. Vajpayee

Question 38

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Philippines independence, July 1946

Question 39

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India's constitution of 1950

Question 40

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dowry

Question 41

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1951 Japan peace treaty and the United States-Japan defensive alliance

Question 42

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Soka Gakkai Buddhist sect

Question 43

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"tea hair"

Question 44

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1997 financial crisis

Question 45

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Burakumin

Question 46

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keiretsu

Question 47

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Little Tigers

Question 48

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Japan's Liberal Democrats and Socialists

Question 49

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zaibatsu

Question 50

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Kim Il Sung

Question 51

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Yukio Mishima and "Coca-Colonization"

Question 52

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2011 tsunami

Question 53

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Question 54

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Douglas MacArthur

Question 55

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Junichiro Koizumi

Question 56

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Syngman Rhee

Question 57

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Cambodia's Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot

Question 58

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the Japanese Miracle

Question 59

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Kenzaburo Oe and the Nobel Prize for Literature

Question 60

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Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

Question 61

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chaebol

Question 62

Pakistan's early history

A) was unexpectedly smooth, as industrial production rose by ninety-three percent and the country became agriculturally self-sufficient.
B) was marked by deep internal struggles over language, religious, and regional issues.
C) produced a Constitution in 1956 with a Western-style parliamentary system.
D) saw unexpectedly peaceful relations develop between it and India.
E) saw Pakistan become a secular society.

Question 63

What best characterizes the nature of Indian society today?

A) India, unlike China, has rejected its cultural traditions and adopted those of the West.
B) The majority of India's population is part of a large and growing middle class.
C) India's economy is a perfect model of the modern, successful socialist state.
D) India today is a nation of contrasts, with a majority of its population living in poverty.
E) Rural and urban poverty in India is rapidly becoming the norm for the first time in Indian history.

Question 64

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Republic of China (Taiwan)

Question 65

In the aftermath of independence, India's greatest economic weakness was in

A) consumer products.
B) industrial production.
C) agriculture.
D) a declining birthrate.
E) too much Western investment.

Question 66

The conflict that developed between East and West Pakistan, and eventually led to the establishment of the state of Bangladesh, was caused by

A) competition over internal development of the nation's natural resources.
B) ethnic differences.
C) many years of international warfare between the two regions.
D) the demand of the people of East Pakistan to establish an independent Marxist state.
E) resentment in East Pakistan that the government ignored their needs.

Question 67

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Hong Kong and Guangdong province

Question 68

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Republic of Korea (ROK) and the People's Republic of Korea (PRK)

Question 69

What is true of Kashmir?

A) Its population is primarily Hindu.
B) Its population is primarily Christian.
C) It is mostly controlled by India.
D) It has been a buffer against violence between India and Pakistan.
E) It is a coastal region.

Question 70

According to the textbook, rural Indian people today seem to hold onto traditional beliefs about ____, which are inconsistent with its capitalist and democratic systems.

A) the free market
B) money
C) industrialization
D) the sati
E) caste

Question 71

In 1971, East Pakistan became the new independent nation of

A) Myanmar.
B) Sri Lanka.
C) Belize.
D) Bangladesh.
E) Kampuchea.

Question 72

Following the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi

A) Kashmir was ceded to Pakistan.
B) the Congress Party began to increase its political hold over the Indian people.
C) the Indian economy showed its first signs of a slowdown since 1950.
D) the Bharata Janata Party began to directly challenge the Congress Party for power.
E) relations between Hindus and Muslims improved rapidly.

Question 73

Pakistanis known as ____ are tribal and nomadic, and often have family in Afghanistan.

A) Kurds
B) Baluchis
C) Pushtuns
D) Punjabis
E) Kashmirs

Question 74

In the 1950s, India

A) took a neutral, third-world position in the Cold War.
B) opposed United States "hegemonism" in the Philippines and Manchuria.
C) took the side of the Soviet Union in the Cold War.
D) opposed Chinese independence.
E) rejected the Marxist policies begun by Nehru.

Question 75

The apparent motivation for the assassination of Gandhi was that Gandhi

A) was discovered to be a secret Sikh.
B) favored Indian partition.
C) didn't want to see the Muslims get what they wanted.
D) was against creating only a Hindu India.
E) was staunchly anti-Hindu.

Question 76

The new Indian government in 1947

A) was based on that of the Soviet Union.
B) had a powerful president, as Nehru was an admirer of the United States constitution.
C) was based on the British system, with a figurehead president and a parliamentary form.
D) barred only two groups, Sikhs and harijans , from voting.
E) allowed for only one political party, the Congress Party.

Question 77

Who was the first prime minister of India after its independence from Great Britain?

A) Mahatma Gandhi
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) Muhammed Ali Jinnah
D) Indira Gandhi
E) Moraji Desai

Question 78

Indira Gandhi

A) developed a policy of forced sterilization to try to cut population growth.
B) abandoned her father's activist policies to aid the poor.
C) used troops to attack and secure the Hindu Golden Temple in Agra.
D) was assassinated by her Buddhist bodyguards.
E) was the daughter of Mahatma Gandhi.

Question 79

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Lee Kuan-yew and Lee Hsien-luong

Question 80

What happened in India after the death of Nehru?

A) His successor, Rajiv Gandhi, launched a strong and cohesive platform.
B) Indira Gandhi retreated from the bold economic and social program of her father.
C) Cold War politics led to the tensions that provoked Sikhs to assassinate Indira Gandhi.
D) Rajiv Gandhi weakened the socialist programs of his mother and grandfather.
E) Nehru's successors implemented a true Marxist program.