Chapter 34: Nation Building in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim

Who headed the American occupation government of Japan?

• Hap Arnold

• Omar Bradley

• Douglas MacArthur

• George Patton

In what year did the conflict between North and South Korea come to a temporary conclusion with the signing of an armistice?

• 1947

• 1950

• 1953

• 1964

What leadership was typical of South Korea between 1960 and the late 1980s?

• Liberal Democratic

• Military

• Communist

• Socialist

Taiwan’s most important trade partner was:

• Mainland China

• The U.S.

• Japan

• Hong Kong

Americans introduced all of the following reforms to Japan during their occupation EXCEPT:

• Giving women the vote.

• Abolishing Shintoism as a state religion.

• Outlawing labor unions.

• Making the emperor a symbolic figurehead.

What party monopolized Japanese government into the 1990s?

• Socialist

• Liberal democratic

• Labor

• Communist

In what way was the restoration of an independent Korea complicated?

• Korea had become a Colony of China, which refused to restore independence.

• Korea was divided into separate zones controlled by the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

• Korea’s government was claimed by surviving members of the old monarchy.

• Korea had no prior experience as an independent government.

The first leader of the U.S.-dominated Republic of Korea was:

• Syngman Rhee.

• Lee Ho Park.

• So Kim Chung.

• Kim Il-Sung

What Chinese leader established an autocratic government on Taiwan in 1948?

• Sun Yatsen

• Shi Zilin

• Kim Il-Sung

• Chiang Kai-shek

What was the weakness of the leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan in the 1980s?

• Inability to provide economic growth

• Corruption

• Association with military polices of World War II

• Adoption of a policy of nuclear armament