20th: East Asia & the Pacific Rim Study Guide
NAME: ____________________________
East Asian Nation Building
...is about exploring the political chaos and involvement in World War II that entrenched Japan as the
region’s dominant power as well as the recovery that began East Asia’s climb back to centrality.
Overarching Ideas:
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Humans need to adapt to environments has necessitated technological innovation.
Economic conditions and religion are key components in legitimizing or undermining government.
Social inequality is source of conflict yet ever-present in civilizations.
Objectives:
1. Analyze the connection between economic conditions and government interventions.
2. Describe the strengths and weaknesses of the internal and external factions that vied for power in
China between 1911 and 1949.
3. Analyze Japan’s economic and political changes and continuities between the late 1800s and 1945.
4. Describe Japan’s strategy and methods to create a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.
5. Compare the political beliefs and impact of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.
6. Analyze China’s economic and political changes and continuities between 1945 and today.
7. Identify the reasons for Japan’s “economic miracle” following WWII.
8. Compare Japanese and Chinese economic development after 1945.
Key Concepts:
Explain the definition, role, and significance of…
China
Sun Yat-Sen
Yuan Shikai
May Fourth Movement
Guomindang
Nationalists
Chiang Kai-Shek
Communists
Mao Zedong
Long March
Mass line
Great Leap Forward
Cultural Revolution
Red Guard
“Little Red Book”
Deng Xiaoping
Four Modernizations
Responsibility System
Special Economic Zones
Japan
Zaibatsu
Sino-Japanese War
Russo-Japanese War
Hideki Tojo
Emperor Hirohito
Manchurian Incident
Greater East Asia CoProsperity Sphere
Nanjing
Pearl Harbor
U.S. occupation
Japanese constitution of
1947
Economic Miracle
Taiwan
Singapore
Hong Kong
Korean War
North Korea
South Korea
Cumulative Content:
The span of East Asian history…
Classical
Zhou
Mandate of Heaven
Warring States
Confucianism
Daoism
Legalism
Qin
Shi Huangdi
Han
Civil Service
Exams
Silk Road
Buddhism
Post-Classical
Sui
Tang-Song Golden Age
Neo-Confucianism
Yuan
Mongols
Pax Mongolica
Japanese selective borrowing
Japanese feudalism
Global Interaction
Ming
Zheng He
Silver
Qing
Manchus
Tokugawa Shogunate
Dutch Learning
Western Hegemony
Opium War
Taiping Rebellion
Spheres of Influence
Boxer Rebellion
Fall of Qing
Meiji Restoration
Indochina
20th: East Asia & the Pacific Rim Study Guide
NAME: ____________________________
Key Places:
Locate on the map…
Manchuria
Nanjing
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
communist nations
North Korea
South Korea
Taiwan
Hong Kong
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Red River
Mekong River
20th: East Asia & the Pacific Rim Study Guide
NAME: ____________________________
Guided Timeline:
Europe
China
1911
Japan
1910
1912-1927
1914
WWI
1919
Interwar
Years
1931
1934
1937-1945
WWII
1937-1945
1941
1942
1945
1945-1949
1949-1976
Cold War
19581960
19651968
1980
1990
1979-1992
1952-1990