1. First Nine Weeks-Unit 3 Japan, Vietnam and The Korea’s

2. What does the DMZ stand for?
Demilitarized zone

3. In some countries a single authority decides what is produced
In some countries a single authority decides what is produced. What type of economy is this?
Command Economy

4. Tokyo What is the capital of this country?
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What is the capital of this country?
Tokyo

5. What is the purpose of having an exchange rate?
So that countries can trade with one another

6. The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and ____________________.
Nagasaki

7. What happened when Communist North Korea invaded South Korea?
The Korean War began

8. What event dragged the United States into World War II?
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.

9. Who was Vietnam’s First Communist Leader?
Ho Chi Minh

10. The United States helped what country set up its new government after Japan was forced to give it up after WWII?
South
Korea

11. Japan’s #1 Natural Resource.
FISH

12. The belief that if one country became Communist than all of its neighbors would also become Communist is known as what?
The Domino Theory

13. Hanoi What is the capital of this country?
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What is the capital of this country?
Hanoi

14.   What did Vietnamese Nationalists start in order to rid their country of foreign influences?
The Vietnam War

15. The communist Guerilla FIGHTERS
  What are the Viet Kong
The communist Guerilla FIGHTERS

16. The Soviet Union helped what country set up its new government after Japan was forced to give it up?
North
Korea

17. The Axis powers of WWII were made up of Germany, Italy, and___?___.
Japan

18. COLD WAR KOREAN WAR VIETNAM WAR
To stop the spread of Communism, the United States got involved in what 3 things?
COLD WAR
KOREAN WAR
VIETNAM WAR

19. What happened at the end of the Korean War?
North and South Korea were divided along the
Demilitarized Zone

20. Japan must import ____?___ and food.
RAW MATERIALS

21. The United States dropped atomic bombs on Nagasaki and ____________________.
Hiroshima

22. Japan was put under the control of what country after WWII?
u.s.a.

23. What man was named Supreme Allied Commander of the Pacific after WWII?
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

24. How was Japan involved in World War II?
Axis Power
Attacked Pearl Harbor
Made US fight 2 wars at same time

25. A highly trained work force has contributed to what country’s economic success?
Japan

26. Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
What is the narrow strip of land that divides the Korean Peninsula into two different countries called?
The
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

27. Why was the Korean War fought?
Communist North Korea invaded South Korea

28. Vietnam’s First Communist Leader
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
Vietnam’s First Communist Leader

29. What country helped North Korea set up its new government after Japan was forced to give it up?
THE
Soviet Union

30. The Axis powers of WWII were made up of Japan,_____ and______.
Germany & Italy

31. On what line of latitude is Korea divided?
38th Parallel

32. Who was the emperor of Japan during World War II
Hirohito

33. What happened to the role of the emperor in Japan after World War II?
His role in Japan became ceremonial in nature.

34. What was the name for the farmers who lived in South Vietnam and participated in guerilla warfare for North Vietnam at night?
Viet Cong

35. Why did the United States become involved in the Vietnam war?
Because they feared that communism would spread in South Asia.

36. What did the city of Saigon become after the Vietnam War?
Ho Chi Minh City

37. Who was the first U.S. general of the Korean War who was later fired by Harry Truman?
Douglas MacArthur

38. Why did China enter the Korean War?
MacArthur advanced his troops into northern North Korea, thus threatening the Chinese border.

39. What type of government does Japan have today?
Constitutional Monarchy

40. What type of government does North Korea have today?
Communist/ Dictatorship and Autocracy

41. How did the United States help rebuild Japan after WWII?
Helped write constitution, established democracy, supplied food to citizens, etc.

42. What is a natural resource?
A resource produced by nature

43. What is an exchange rate?
The charge for exchanging currency of one country for another

44. Where does most of North Korea’s money go?
To the military

45. Who is the leader of North Korea today?
Kim Jong-il

46. What is GDP?
The total value of goods and services produced in a country in a given year.

47. What is the demilitarized zone?
The buffer zone that separates North Korea and South Korea

48. Mixed/Command-Market
China and Vietnam both have communist led governments but their modern economies are said to be what type?

49. What type of economy does Vietnam have today?
Mixed/Command

50. What type of government does Vietnam have today?
Communist

51. What was the result of the Korean War?
North Korea and South Korea were divided at the DMZ

52. The communist dictatorship of North Korea has what type of economy?
Command
The communist dictatorship of North Korea has what type of economy?

53. Who makes most of the decisions in North Korea today?
Kim Jong-il

54. What system of government is a voluntary association of independent states that agrees to follow a weak central government?
Confederation

55. What system of government has a central government that controls everything and power is not shared between states, counties or provinces?
Unitary

56. What started the Korean War?
North Korea invaded South Korea.

57. Quotas
What political trade barrier limits the amount of goods or services coming into or leaving a country?

58. What is the name of Japan’s parliament?
The Diet

59. What was the result of the Vietnam War?
North Vietnam took over South Vietnam.

60. Tariffs
What political trade barrier places a tax on the goods or services coming into or leaving a country?

61. What type of economy does North Korea have today?
Command

62. What political trade barrier stops all trade with a country?
Embargo
What political trade barrier stops all trade with a country?

63. What role in Japan today is classified as the HEAD of government today?
The Prime Minister

64. Farmers by day, guerrillas by night
Who were the Viet Cong?
Farmers by day, guerrillas by night

65. What is the definition of GDP?
The value of all the goods and services produced in a country within a single year.

66. What type of Economy does Japan have today?
Mixed/Market

67. What country and what two cities of this country did the USA bomb during WWII?
Japan; Nagasaki and Hiroshima

68. Having a sense of pride in one’s country.
What is nationalsim?
Having a sense of pride in one’s country.

69. What kind of economic system is it called when one person makes all of the choices of what is to be produced?
Command

70. Do people living in North Korea elect their leaders? Why or Why not?
No, it is a communist nation with a dictator as the ruler.

71. The training, skills, and education that workers bring to their jobs.
What is human capital?
The training, skills, and education that workers bring to their jobs.

72. What kind of government does North Korea have?
Communist

73. What is specialization?
The concentration on one area of work.

74. If you are a democratic country you MOST LIKELY have what kind of an economic system?
Market

75. What is capital?
Goods, products

76. What country in Asia has the best economic system today and….WHY???
Japan, they have a highly educated work force with strong work ethics.

77. Most countries in the world have what type of economic system?
Mixed

78. What 2 countries did Japan ally with during WWII?
Germany & Italy

79. What does Japan import….and WHY?
Food and raw materials. There is not enough room for farming.

80. What country helped Japan rebuild after WWII and WHY?
United States, in an effort to promote Democracy.

81. What started the Korean War?
N. Korea invaded South Korea

82. Seoul What is the capitol of this country?
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What is the capitol of this country?
Seoul

83. Who won the Korean War and WHY????
No one really, both countries are still separated today.

84. How did Japan try to create more farmland??
By cutting terraces into the side of the mountains (like steps)

85. There are 3 questions business and countries economic systems ask themselves when making a product. What are these THREE questions?
What to produce,
How to produce
For whom to produce

86. Pyongyang What is the capital of this country?
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What is the capital of this country?
Pyongyang

87. A buffer between North Korea and South Korea to prevent fighting.
What does the DMZ do?
A buffer between North Korea and South Korea to prevent fighting.

88. What does standard of living mean?
The way people live in a country, the style of home, type of job, availability of resources and entertainment.

89. What does legislature mean?
The governing body that makes laws.

90. Supply and Demand belongs with what economic system?
Market, mixed is acceptable too.

91. Gross Domestic Product
What does GDP stand for?
Gross Domestic Product

92. What is currency?
money