Deck 30: Toward the Pacific Century

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Answer not provided.

Question 2

How has 9/11 affected the relations between Pakistan and the United States? Between India and the United States? Between Pakistan and India?

Answer 2

Answer not provided.

Question 3

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Congress Party

Answer 3

Answer not provided.

Question 4

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

Question 5

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Jawaharlal Nehru and "democratic socialism"

Question 6

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"an orgy of blood"

Question 7

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 8

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 9

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

Question 10

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the Pacific Century

Question 11

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August 15,1947

Question 12

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 13

Compare and contrast the forced sterilization policy of Indira Gandhi in India with the one-child policy in China.Why was the Indian approach to over-population a failure and the Chinese approach a relative success?

Question 14

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 15

Describe the evolution of the role of women in India and Pakistan from colonial times to the present.What legal changes have occurred that affect women's lives,and how have these been put in practice in urban and rural environments?

Question 16

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
India's enforced sterilization

Question 17

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

Question 18

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 19

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Hyderabad and Kashmir

Question 20

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 21

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Dalits / harijans

Question 22

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Benazir Bhutto

Question 23

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).B.J.Habibie,and Susilo Yudhyono
Indonesia's General Suharto,

Question 24

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Bangalore and "outsourcing"

Question 25

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Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos,Corazon Aquino,and Joseph Estrada

Question 26

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India's constitution of 1950

Question 27

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harijans/dalits

Question 28

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Sikhs and the Golden Temple in Amritsar

Question 29

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).B.Vajpayee
Bharata Janata Party (BJP)and

Question 30

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Philippines independence,July 1946

Question 31

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Arranged marriages

Question 32

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Urdu and Bengali

Question 33

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communalism

Question 34

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Rajiv Gandhi

Question 35

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East Timor

Question 36

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Sri Lanka and the Elam Tigers

Question 37

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West Pakistan and East Pakistan/Bangladesh

Question 38

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

Question 39

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Indonesia's Sukarno and "guided democracy"

Question 40

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General Pervaiz Musharraf,the Taliban and al-Qaeda

Question 41

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zaibatsu and keiretsu

Question 42

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Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

Question 43

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

Question 44

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1997 financial crisis

Question 45

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2004 tsunami

Question 46

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Junichiro Koizumi

Question 47

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Douglas MacArthur

Question 48

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the Japanese Miracle

Question 49

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Myanmar's Aung San Huu Kyi and General Ne Win

Question 50

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Eta / Burakumin and Koreans

Question 51

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Cambodia's Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot

Question 52

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Syngman Rhee and Chung Hee Park

Question 53

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Soka Gakkai Buddhist sect

Question 54

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Japan's Liberal Democrats and Socialists

Question 55

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Big and Little Tigers

Question 56

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Kenzaburo Oe and the Nobel Prize for Literature

Question 57

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North Korea's Kim Il Sung

Question 58

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"tea hair"

Question 59

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Muslims and Christians in Indonesia

Question 60

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Yukio Mishima and "Coca-Colonization"

Question 61

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Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists

Question 62

Who was the first prime minister of India?

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

Question 63

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)differences in language,history,and ethnic tradition.
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)both b and c

Question 64

Which of the following statements is false regarding today's India?

A)Villages have changed little since pre-colonial days.
B)Child marriages have been outlawed.
C)The law calls for equal pay for equal work.
D)Sati is no longer permitted by law.
E)Water shortages no longer persist because of massive dam-building projects.

Question 65

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
ANZUS

Question 66

All of the following are correct about Kashmir except

A)a majority of the population is Hindu.
B)most of the population is Muslim.
C)India controls most of Kashmir.
D)it has led to violence between India and Pakistan.
E)in 2003,the governments of India and Pakistan agreed to seek a peaceful solution to the Kashmir dispute.

Question 67

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
chaebol (Samsung,Daewoo,Hyundai)

Question 68

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 69

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 70

In 1971,East Pakistan became the new independent nation of

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

Question 71

All of the following are correct about Pakistan since September 11,2001,except

A)much of the local population supported the Taliban,which had been driven from Afghanistan.
B)President Musharaff gave support to the anti-terrorist campaign.
C)Benazir Bhutto was elected president in 2008.
D)there were renewed tensions with India over Kashmir.
E)by 2008,many observers expressed concern that Pakistan might disintegrate as a country into squabbling ethnic blocs.

Question 72

Which of the following statements is an accurate statement regarding Indian developments after the death of Nehru?

A)The following government produced dramatic policy shifts.
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.

Question 73

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 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

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 76

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Hong Kong and Guangdong province

Question 77

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 78

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

Question 79

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 80

Which of the following statements best characterizes the nature of India 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.