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15 Cards in this Set
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Syngman Rhee
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South Korea, unauthoritarian, non communist leader.
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Kim Jon II
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"Dear Leader", son of Kim II Sung, North Korea
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Ho Chi Minh
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Vietnamese Communist who organized guerrilas to resist the Japanese; he controlled North Vietnam
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Domino Theory
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Everything fell over
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Khmer Rouge
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Cambodian communist guerrila who overthrew South Vietnam Government
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Corazon Aquino
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wife of Benigno, philipino democratic
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Peoples Republic of China
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Set up by Mao, after he swept to victory
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Great Leap Forward
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Mao launched GLF when he encouraged people to have better farm production
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Cultural Revolution
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Goal: Purge China of Bourgeois or nonrevolution tendencies
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Little Red Book
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Copies of Mao's Sayings
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Tiananmen Square Massacre
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Demonstrators were killed for showing belief in freedom
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Commune
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Several villages, thousands of acres of land, and up to 25,000 people
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Diet
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Parliament
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Gross Domestic Product
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Total value of all goods and services produced by a nation
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Douglas MacArthur
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USA general who led UN
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