Cold War in Asia Vocab (WS)

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Nationalist leader of China aiming to defeat Mao Zedong's Communism

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Chiang Kai-Shek (Jiang Jeshi)

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Radical youth of China's Cultural Revolution (1966), wore red armbands and carried Mao's Little Red Book.

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Red Guard

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Started by Mao Zedong, combined collective farms into People's Communes, failed due to lack of work incentive, lasted 2 years.

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Great Leap Forward

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Conflict initiated by North Korea's invasion of South Korea, involving UN (mainly US) support for South Korea and China for North Korea.

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Korean War

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War between communist Mao Zedong and nationalist Chiang-Kai Shek; communists took over, nationalists retreated to Taiwan.

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Chinese Civil War

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Massive surprise attack by the Vietcong on South Vietnam in early 1968.

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Tet Offensive

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Term for countries that were nonaligned during the Cold War

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Third World

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1919 protest in China against the Treaty of Versailles and foreign influence

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May Fourth Movement