| A | B |
|---|
| Diet | assembly or legislature in Japan |
| gross domestic product | total value of all goods and services produced by a nation |
| Liberal Democratic party | dominated Japan's government from the 1950s to the 1990s |
| trade deficit | when a nation imports more goods than it exports |
| commune | collections of farms that had to meet production quotas set by the government |
| Cultural Revolution | movement to purge China of counterrevolutionaries |
| Great Leap Forward | Mao's effort to increase farm and industrial output |
| "Little Red Book" | book of Mao Zedong's sayings heralded by the Red Guard |
| Asian tigers | Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea were known as the ______________ due to their agressive growth |
| Kim Jong Il | ruler of Communist North Korea since 1994 |
| Syngman Rhee | authoritarian, noncommunist leader of South Korea |
| Lee Kwan Yew | autocratic ruler of Singapore who jailed his opponents |
| Corazon Aquino | elected president of the Philippines over Ferdinand Marcos |
| ASEAN | economic and cultural alliance of six Southeast Asian countries |
| Aung San Suu Kyi | awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 |
| Pacific Rim | region including the countries of Asia and the Americas that border the Pacific Ocean |
