India/Pakistan
The state religion of Pakistan, and the religion that much of the country's population follows.
What is Islam?
The U.S. state that borders most of the Mexican northern borders, and in which most boundary crossings happen.
What is Texas?
The incredibly powerful leader of Russia today, whose actions and remarks helped directly lead to the violent invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
The name of the war from 1950 to 1953 that divided the Korean Peninsula into North and South Korea; the first military action of the Cold War, and a major proxy war.
The continent that Sudan and South Sudan can be found on.
What is Africa?
The country whose actions in leaving India in 1947 and splitting the country into two led to the conflict known today.
What is England?
The United States president that suggested an expansion of the United States-Mexico border wall, claiming that Mexico would pay for it.
Who is Donald Trump?
A powerful intergovernmental alliance between 30 member states (mostly European) that was established in the aftermath of WWII. Ukraine was heavily considering joining the alliance, which frightened Russia and helped lead to the invasion.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
The former communist country that supplied the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) with weapons, provisions, and support, letting them become a world military power.
What is the Soviet Union?
The number of civil wars that Sudan has experienced (on-and-off between 1955 all the way to 2005).
What is two?
A type of incredibly powerful weapon that both countries posses, which could lead to great death and consequences if a war is to occur.
What are nuclear weapons?
The name of the two bodies of water that the U.S. Mexico border stretches between.
What are the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico?
A peninsula that used to be in Southern Ukraine, that is an important point of conflict for the two countries. Russia invaded and annexed this Peninsula from Ukraine in February and March of 2014.
What is the Crimean Peninsula?
The major South Korean city that North Korean leader Kim-Jong Un threatened to turn into a "sea of flames" if provoked any further.
What is Seoul?
The year South Sudan gained independence from Sudan. This made it the most recent sovereign state or country with widespread international recognition as of 2022.
What is 2011?
The state in between India and Pakistan which both countries desire to add to their control, and for which many wars have been fought over the years.
What is Kashmir?
The general name of Mexican drug trafficking gangs that hold incredible power and smuggle drugs across the border.
What are drug cartels?
The name given to a region in the easternmost states of Luhansk and Donetsk of Ukraine. Much of the Russian invasion in 2022, and armed conflict in the decade prior, happened in this region.
What is the Donbas?
The name of the 2.5-mile-wide buffer zone between North and South Korea's borders.
What is the demilitarized zone (DMZ)?
The approximate number of millions of people that died as a result of the Second Sudanese Civil War: this includes as a direct result of war, but also famine and disease caused by the conflict.
What is two (two million)?
The name of the boundary demarcated between India and Pakistan (both West and East) by the leaving country of power in 1947, named after the joint chairman of the two boundary commissions.
What is the Radcliffe Line?
A large city in the most southwestern point of Texas where many border crossings happen: also the most dangerous border town in the U.S. Borders the city of Ciudad Juarez in Mexico.
What is El Paso?
The name given to the deadly clashes between protestors and security forces in Kyiv after the ousting of elected president Viktor Yanukovych, at the end of the Euromaidan protests in 2014.
What is the Revolution of Dignity, or the Maidan Revolution?
The common name of the border that separated North and South Korea before the war; also the name of a circle of latitude.
What is the 38th Parallel?
The name of the army of the Republic of South Sudan. Founded as a guerilla movement against the government of Sudan in 1983.
What is the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA); or now, the South Sudan People's Defence Forces (SSPDF)?