Lesson 16: Wars and Conflict in Asia

1. WARS AND CONFLICT IN
ASIA

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Communist
Capital: Beijing
Leaded by Mao Zedong
Supported by Russians
Communism as Govt.
System
Socialism as economic
policy
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Nationalist
Capital: Taipei
Leaded by Chiang-Kai
Shek
Supported by United
States
Republican-Democratic
Govt. system.
Capitalist Economic
System

3. Communist
RepublicanGovernment under
Democratic Govt.
Mao Zedong:
system under
Chiang:
 Hundred Flowers
Campaign
 Land to the Tiller
Program
 Great Leap Forward
 Great Proletarian
Cultural Revolution
Communist Government
under Deng Xiaoping:
 Four Modernizations
Campaign

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South Korea
Democratic
Government System
Dr. Syngman Rhee
1st Korean war
Aided by the United
Nations
Capital: Seoul
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North Korea
Communism as
Government System
Kim Il-Sung
1st Korean war
Aided by the Union of
Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR)
Pyongyang

5.  1st Korean war ended with an Armistice
 Physical division of Korea into South
and North Korea
 Creation Korean Demilitarized Zone
(DMZ)
 Second Korean War
 Second Korean War ended with a truce

7.  India
 Pakistan
 Indian Nationalist
 Muslim League
Movement
 President:Jawaharlal
Nehru
 Capital: New Delhi
 Governor General:
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
 Capital: Karachi

8.  1st Indo-Pakistan War: Control over Kashmir and
Jammu
 Ended with a plebiscite
 2/3 of Kashmir and included Jammu ceded to India, 1/3
of Kashmir to Pakistan.
 2nd Indi-Pakistan War: Unsatisfied with the land
distribution.
 3rd Indo- Pakistan War: Eastern Pakistan wants
Independence.
 Republic of Bangladesh

9.  Balfour Declaration of 1947
 Republic of Israel on May 14, 1948
 Arab league staged attack against Israel
 Israel won against Arabs
 After the war Arab states declared an economic embargo
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against Israel
Egyptian Pres. Gamal Abdel Nasser ordered the control
over the Suez canal and closing of Tihran Strait
Suez or Sinai War
Egypt Dual allegiance to the USSR and US.
UN Emergency Forces

10.  Third Arab- Israeli War
 Israel Won
 Forth Arab-Israeli War/ Ramadan War
 Israel Won

11.  Major Conflict of Iran and Iraq:
 Racial Conflict, Religious Conflict, Border Conflict
 Iraqi President: Saddam Hussein, Iranian President:
Ayatollah Khoemeni
 The battle ended as a draw or stalemate

12.  Iraqi President Saddam Hussein accused Kuwait of
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stealing oil and asking for amnesty.
Iraq invaded Kuwait
UN Security Council ordered Iraq to withdraw
32 countries declared economic embargo and sent
troops.
Ceasefire was declared by Feb. 28, 1991
Hussein assassination plot against the US President

13.  North Vietnam
 South Vietnam
 Headed by Ho Chi
 Prime Minister Ngo
Minh
 Supported by China
and Russia and
Vietnamese Buddhist
Dinh Diem
 Supported by United
States and Catholics

14.  South East Asia Treaty Organization
(SEATO)
 Tonkin Resolution
 Tet offensive
 Withdrawal of US troops
 South Vietnam surrendered on April
30, 1975
 Capital: Saigon

15.  Mikhael Gorbachev
 Denounced involvement in armed conflicts
 Implementation of glasnost and perestroika
 Ended Authoritarianism in the central govt. and
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transferred power to local govt. units.
Allowed semi-privatization of goods
Right to direct purchase of Goods
Freedom of Speech
Formalized the disintegration of the USSR