SE Asia Review Questions

{Gulf of Tonkin - Ngo Dinh Diem - Tet Offensive} All of these terms are related to...

• World War II
• The Korean War
• The Vietnam War
• The Battle of Okinawa

Which nation experienced a communist revolution in the years immediately following World War II?

• Afghanistan
• China
• Japan
• Russia

In the global economy, Japan is a major participant because their location...

• has made them a major military power.
• allows Japan to received aid from the United States
• allows them to easily sell manufactured goods to the rest of the world.
• has forced the majority of their population to work for international industry.

In a command economy, how is it determined what goods and services will be produced?

• Businesses decide what to produce on the basis of market conditions.
• Consumers decide through their behavior in the marketplace.
• Central government planning decides what will be produced.
• Supply and demand control production and price.

Inflation is most harmful to

• Debtors
• creditors
• wage earners
• property owners
• borrowers

How did the domino theory influence the United States' role in the Vietnam War?

• Vietnamization became the new U.S. foreign policy.
• The United States adopted a position of neutrality.
• It forced the United States to support the Vietcong.
• It convinced the government to become involved in the war.

In economics, capital goods

• are all forms of money.
• are not subject to scarcity.
• are those used by the consumer.
• are used to make other products.

An exchange rate is used to

• promote the argument supporting free trade.
• promote the use of subsidies on foreign goods.
• determine the price of one country's imports in terms of another country's imports.
• determine the price of one country's GDP in terms of another country's GDP.

{China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea} These countries would be BEST classified as being in which region?

• East Asia
• West Asia
• South Asia
• Central Asia
• Southeast Asia

Both Mohandas Gandhi and Mao Zedong...

• appealed to the common people for support.
• believed in nonviolent political movements.
• desired democratic reforms with capitalist economies.
• led revolutionary movements against the British Empire.