Deck 27: East Asian Resurgence, Since 1945

Question 1

Which of the following was a policy of the Chinese communists' social revolution in the 1940s?

A) Encouraging villagers to obey local landlords
B) Transferring land from poor peasants to the state
C) Replacing government appointed leaders with local councils

Answer 1

Replacing government appointed leaders with local councils

Question 2

What was the ultimate goal of Deng Xiaoping's one-child policy?

A) To stop China's population growth from outpacing its resources
B) To prevent international rivalries between China and other states
C) To compel parents to invest resources in their children's futures

Answer 2

To stop China's population growth from outpacing its resources

Question 3

Since World War II, Japan has been dominated by which political party?

A) Japanese Marxist Party
B) Liberal Democratic Party
C) Japanese Socialist Party

Answer 3

Liberal Democratic Party

Question 4

Since 1980, by how about much has China's economy has grown annually?

A) 5 percent
B) 10 percent
C) 30 percent

Question 5

Which of the following was NOT an accomplishment of Mao's China by his death in 1976?

A) The acquisition of nuclear weapons
B) The elimination of poverty
C) The restoration of China to great power status

Question 6

How did Deng's policy of tolerating limited political dissent end?

A) The Chinese government massacre of university students in 1989
B) The collapse of the Communist Party in 1991
C) The liberalization of Chinese society by 1995

Question 7

When did the United States normalize diplomatic relations with China?

A) Relations have not yet been normalized.
B) 1972
C) 1978

Question 8

Following Japan's defeat in World War II, Emperor Hirohito had what effect on Japan's rebuilding process?

A) He pushed for Japan's remilitarization.
B) He was deposed and exiled.
C) He called for Japan to cooperate with its former enemies.

Question 9

Immediately after their defeat in World War II, Japan was stripped of all of the following territories EXCEPT which?

A) Manchuria
B) Hokkaido
C) Ryukyu Islands

Question 10

Deng Xiaoping introduced market socialism in China because he believed which of the following?

A) Mao had been fundamentally misguided.
B) It fit Confucian traditions better than Communism did.
C) China needed to modernize its economy to become a major world power again.

Question 11

Which of the following was a component of Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution?

A) Allowing some westernization
B) Emphasizing the significance of the common worker
C) Emphasizing agricultural production

Question 12

Under "market Leninism," China has followed a policy of less direct state control of which of the following domains?

A) Politics
B) Society
C) Economy

Question 13

The "Iron Rice Bowl," Mao's policy of sharing resources in villages, generally had what effect for poor Chinese citizens?

A) It made life more difficult for them.
B) It greatly enriched many of them.
C) It made life somewhat easier for them.

Question 14

To increase China's participation in the world's economy, Deng Xiaoping sought to improve diplomatic relations with all of the following EXCEPT which state?

A) Soviet Union
B) United States
C) Japan

Question 15

Mao's Red Guards in the 1960s were primarily made up of which group?

A) Students and workers
B) Officials and intellectuals
C) Military advisors and commanders

Question 16

The U.S. administration of Japan after World War II aimed to do which of the following?

A) Recreate Japan in America's image.
B) Punish Japan.
C) Demilitarize and democratize Japan.

Question 17

Which of the following best describes Mao's policy toward religion during his reign?

A) It was basically outlawed.
B) It was tolerated mostly.
C) Those who practiced were subject to routine torture.

Question 18

Chiang Kai-shek and the nationalist government were supported in the Chinese Civil War by what other nation?

A) Japan
B) Taiwan
C) United States

Question 19

How have Chinese authorities treated Muslim minorities in Xinjiang?

A) They have detained millions in internment camps.
B) They have largely let them live according to their own customs.
C) They have adopted reforms to better enfranchise them.

Question 20

Which of the following changes occurred in the status of women in China under Communist rule?

A) Arranged marriages were enforced.
B) Women were given legal equality with men.
C) Divorce became harder for women to acquire.

Question 21

Which of the following did NOT provide food aid to North Korea in the 1990s?

A) South Korea
B) USSR
C) United States

Question 22

Which of the following is true of Japanese cities?

A) They are the safest in the world.
B) They are not affected by organized crime.
C) Most Japanese live in cities with less than 100,000 people.

Question 23

Following the difficult postwar period, how did many suffering Chinese citizens compare Mao's Communist government to Chiang's Nationalist Party?

A) Too Westernized
B) Less economically viable
C) More trustworthy

Question 24

Why did the CCP implement collectivization policies?

Question 25

The Japanese "salarymen" are renowned for which of the following?

A) Working very long hours
B) Openly criticizing their companies
C) Spending much time on domestic duties

Question 26

How did the Korean War begin in 1950?

A) The U.S.-led coalition invaded North Korea.
B) The Chinese and North Koreans invaded South Korea.
C) The North Koreans invaded South Korea.

Question 27

Despite its poverty, North Korea has managed to create which of the following?

A) A thriving automobile industry
B) A booming agricultural sector
C) A huge military and probably nuclear weapons

Question 28

Unlike the Nationalist Party, Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party does NOT support which of the following?

A) Capitalism and democracy
B) Eventual reunification with mainland China
C) Christianity

Question 29

Why did the Chinese nationalists flee to Taiwan in the late 1940s?

Question 30

Which of the following best describes how Chiang's Nationalist forces established themselves in Taiwan?

A) Invasion and occupation
B) By purchasing land at a fair price
C) By invitation from the Taiwanese

Question 31

Which of the following were obstacles to Communist China's economic growth in 1949?

A) Support from the United States
B) Reluctance to receive loans and investment from abroad
C) Two decades of warfare had produced large reserves of capital

Question 32

Unlike the mainland, Taiwan remains more firmly grounded in which of the following?

A) Confucianism
B) Democratic capitalism
C) Christianity

Question 33

Why did tensions erupt between the PRC and the USSR?

Question 34

What was the Great Leap Forward's main goal?

Question 35

By 2000, it became evident that Japan had a problem with what demographic change?

A) A below replacement level birthrate
B) Very high rates of immigration
C) An increasingly youthful population

Question 36

What were the key tenets of Maoism?

Question 37

Describe the PRC's foreign policy toward its neighbors.

Question 38

The term Japan Inc. refers to the cooperation between which organizations?

A) Corporations and the military
B) Corporations and the universities
C) Corporations and the government

Question 39

What was the result of the Korean War?

A) It resulted in a Chinese-occupied North Korea and a U.S.-occupied South Korea.
B) It resulted in the official creation of the independent states of North and South Korea.
C) It resulted in a decades-long U.S. occupation of North Korea that only ended in 1978.

Question 40

The "sunshine policy" of South Korea aimed which of the following objectives?

A) Opening relations with North Korea
B) Repairing the relationship with Japan
C) Seeking new aid from China

Question 41

How did the global financial crisis of 2008 affect China?

Question 42

Mao used mass popular mobilization to accomplish which of the following?

A) To rearm the Chinese military
B) To initiate scientific research
C) To address China's ecological challenges

Question 43

How do the North Korean and South Korean regimes differ?

Question 44

What were the results of the Korean War in Korea?

Question 45

Describe Den Xiaoping's policies.

Question 46

How did the global financial crisis of 2008 affect Japan?

Question 47

What are the main challenges that lie ahead for Chinese growth? How is the Belt and Road initiative positioned to address some of these?

Question 48

What was the goal of the Great Leap Forward?

A) To increase agricultural production
B) To increase international trade
C) To industrialize China rapidly

Question 49

What were the origins and results of the Tiananmen Square protests?

Question 50

What were the motivations, methods, and results of the Great Leal Forward?

Question 51

What were the motivations, methods, and results of the Cultural Revolution?

Question 52

How had the Chinese economy changed by 2000?

Question 53

What role have Korea and Taiwan played in the global economy?

Question 54

What trends are there in Japanese politics since 1952?

Question 55

Why has China restricted access to the Internet?

Question 56

How has Chinese growth affected Korea and Taiwan?

Question 57

What was Japan's experience of the Allied occupation after World War II?

Question 58

Describe the differences and similarities between Den Xiaoping's policies and Mao Zedong's policies. What were the results of Den Xiaoping's policies?

Question 59

Why has the gap between rich and poor widened in China?

Question 60

Describe the course of U.S.-PRC-USSR relations. Why did the PRC and the USSR have a falling-out and what effect did this have for U.S.-PRC relations?

Question 61

Which of the following was not one of the "five guarantees" offered by Mao?

A) Food
B) Prosperity
C) Education

Question 62

What are some of China's most pressing social problems? What policies are being implemented in order to stem these problems and what results have they had?

Question 63

How has Japan changed politically, economically, and socially from 1945 to the present day?

Question 64

Why did North and South Korea develop so differently?

Question 65

Why did the Great Leap Forward fail?

A) It resulted in overproduction of food.
B) It had no support from Chinese peasants.
C) It focused excessively on the production of steel.

Question 66

How did the global financial crisis affect Korea and Taiwan? In what ways was this different or similar to the effects of the crisis in Japan and China?

Question 67

Describe Japan's policies toward economic cooperation with its regional neighbors such as China and Korea. What have been the results of these policies and how have Japanese officials wanted to change them?

Question 68

In 1953, Chinese entry forced the United States to agree to a stalemate in what East Asian conflict?

A) The Korean War
B) The Vietnam War
C) The Taiwan Conflict

Question 69

During the 1950s, tensions between China and what country grew significantly?

A) The United States
B) Japan
C) USSR