South East Asia Flashcards
How many rabbits were initially introduced to Australia and 50 yrs later, how many?
24 and 1 billion
This group of people were the first to settle in NZ
and 8 percent of NZ landers can trace their ancestry to this group
Maori
First to allow women to vote
NZ
State that is organized as a ring of power around a central court
Mandala
Precountry
How many languages are spoken throughout the world
6,500
How many spoken throughout south east asia
1100
How many languages are spoken throughout New ginuea?
856
First American soldier killed in Vietnam
1956
By the 20th century, when the Europeans controlled all of SE Asia this country stayed independant
Siam
Like Siamese twins
In what year did American troops withdraw from Vietnam
1973
War ended in
1975
What country ruled northern Vietnam for 1000 years
China
In SE Asia indochina( Vietnam Cambodia Laos) this country ruled this area until defeated by the Vietnamese
France
Battle- den bien phi
1954
How many Cambodians were killed by Khmer Rouge during the Cambodian genocide
1/4
This event occurred in 1968
Physiological victory for the North
turning point of the war
Led to more anti war protest
TET offensive
May of 1970
Kids killed at kent state
Allison Krause Jeffery miller Bill Schroeder Sandy schurer 13 shot 9 injured
What fraction of Australia is desert
1/3
Who was the first to discover islands of Oceania and Great Barrier Reef
James cook
How many countries claim territory in Antarctica
7
US is not one of them
59 signed the doc
Nobody owns it
Agreement laid out by the UN to reduce greenhouse emmisions
Kyoto protocall
US didn’t sign
Coral island area in the pacific where they tested nuclear testing
Bikini atoll
In 1788 what country founded Australia as what
British as a penal colony
What was the result of the gulf of Tonkin
1964 gulf of Tonkin which gave permission LBJ to keep SE nations from COMM
What year did the aborigines come citizens of Australia
1967
