Topic 20B Cold War in Asia Vocab (WS)

Match the following leaders

• Kim Il Sung

• Leader of the Chinese Communists whose revolutionary army seized power in China in 1949

• Syngman Rhee

• Non-communist dictator who led the forces of South Korea and was backed by the United States

• Ho Chi Minh

• Nationalist leader of China whose goal was to crush Communism led by Mao Zedong

• Chiang Kai Shek

• Communist leader of North Korea; his attack on South Korea in 1950 started the Korean War. He remained in power until 1994

• Mao Zedong

• Communist leader of North Vietnam

6,000 mile march of Chinese Communists led by Mao Zedong from Southwestern to Northwestern China​ (a)  

• Long March
• Ho Chi Minh Trail
• Pusan Perimeter
• 38th Parallel
• May Fourth Movement
• Great Leap Forward

the Radical youth of the Cultural Revolution in China starting in 1966. Often wore red armbands and carried Mao's Little Red Book

• Red Guard

• Guerilla

• Khmer Rouge

• Vietcong

The place that the final battle took place that forced the French out of Vietnam​ (a)  

• Dien Bien Phu
• North Korea
• Pusan Perimeter
• 38th Parallel
• Demilitarized Zone

Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation​ (a)  

• Cultural Revolution
• Great Leap Forward
• May Fourth Movement
• Long March
• Domino Theory
• Collectivization

A zone from which military forces or operations or installations are prohibited​ (a)  

• 38th Parallel
• Demilitarized Zone
• Pusan Perimeter
• Dien Bien Phu
• Khmer Rouge

Match the following

• 38th Parallel

• in China during the 1950s, a group of collective farms which contained more than 30,000 people who lived and worked together

• Commune

• Communist supporters of Ho Chi Minh whose intention was to get foreigners out of Vietnam

• Viet Minh

• small bands of fighters who weaken the enemy with surprise raids and hit-and-run attacks

• Guerilla

• line of latitude that separated North and South Korea

• Vietcong

• South Vietnamese Communist guerrillas who, with the help of North Vietnam, fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War.

Started by Mao Zedong, combined collective farms into People's Communes, failed because there was no incentive to work harder, ended after 2 years

• Cultural Revolution

• May Fourth Movement

• Great Leap Forward

• Tet Offensive

Conflict that began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea and came to involve the United Nations (primarily the United States) allying with South Korea and the People's Republic of China allying with North Korea

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

• World War II

• Cold War

War between communist Mao Zedong and nationalist Chiang-Kai Shek. The communists took over and forced the nationalists to retreat to Taiwan

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

• Cold War

• Chinese Civil War