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12 Cards in this Set
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Which two East Asian nations are divided into free and communist countries?
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China/Taiwan and North Korea/South Korea
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Who was the most influential missionary in East China?
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Hudson Taylor
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What is the Pacific Rim?
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the area of East Asia bounded by the Pacific Ocean, Russia, the Indian subcontinent, SE Asia, and SW Asia
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What are the two main rivers of China?
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Huang He and Change
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In what section of Beijing in 1989 were students demonstrating for greater freedoms crushed by Communist troops?
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Tienanmen Square
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Which island colony was founded by the British but reverted back to China in 1997?
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Hong Kong
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the Communist leader who defeated the Chinese Nationalist army and established the People's Republic of China
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Mao Zedong
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the name of the part of Mongolia that is controlled by China
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Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia)
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the two islands that Chinese Nationalists claim in addition to Taiwan
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Quemoy and Matsu
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the name given to the border separating North Korea from South Korea
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DMZ or demilitarized zone
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the official name of South Korea
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Republic of Korea
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how the Japanese refer to their country
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Nippon
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