chapter 22 history Flashcards
(17 cards)
Contains the Mekong Delta
Indochina Peninsula
Irrawaddy river
most important river in Myanmar
Southeast Asia’s major food crop
rice
largest country in Southeast Asia
Indonesia
Diaspora
Group of people who left there home country to live and work abroad.
Has second largest population of baptists
Myanmar
IMF
International Monetary fund, an international organization whose goal is to foster monetary cooperation.
Ho Chi Minh
Communist leader who defeated the French in 1954
Thailand’s government
constatutional moarchy
has largest number of muslims
Indonesia
Only landlocked country of southeast Asia
Laos
most densely populated nation
singapore
ASEAN
Association of Southeast Asian Nations: founded in 1967 to promote economic and political cooperation
Buddah
means enlightened one
catholicism
largest religion in the Phillipines
poverty Environment Initiative
initiative to solve both environmental problems as well as underlying problems and causes.
1978
Vietnam envaided Cambodia