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Potluck
100

North Korea and South Korea both lie on what peninsula?

What is the Korean Peninsula?

100

Overpopulation, industrialization and burning of fossil fuels lead to what environmental issue?

What is air pollution in China and India?

100

In order to trade with another country, a price must be determined on products.  What is this called?

What is exchange rate or a system for exchanging currencies between countries?

100

What was Mohandas Gandhi’s role in India’s history?

What is India gained independence from Great Britain through nationalism?

100

What are the two major religions in South Asia?

What is Hinduism and Buddhism?

200

Which country is an archipelago located east of China?

What is Japan?

200

Because of the abundance of rivers and coastline, where is China's highest population?

What is the East?

200

If your country’s literacy rate is low, should you invest in capital, human capital, natural resources, or entrepreneurs?

What is Human Capital?

200

Who was the first communist leader in China?

Who is Mao Zedong?

200

What is the difference in a religious and ethnic group?

What is a religious is a common belief system that you can choose, but ethnic is your heritage and can not be chosen?

300

Which physical feature and natural barrier is located between India and China?

What are the Himalayas?

300

What is one of two of the causes of BOTH water and air pollution in China and India?

What is industrialization and overpopulation?

300
Finish the statement: The more valuable the natural resources of a country, 

What is "the higher the GDP will be"?

300

What was the reason that the US became involved in the Korean and Vietnam Wars?

What is to stop communism?

300

What are examples of capital goods and how can investing in capital goods help China’s economy?

What are factories, machinery, and technology? China’s economy could be helped by this because they could make more products and this would increase their GDP, create jobs, and help their economy.

400

What country is represented on the following map?

What is India, North Korea, South Korea, Japan or China? (Pull up unlabeled map of SE Asia and point to one of the countries)

400

Religious practices, agricultural runoff, and insufficient sewage system are all reasons for pollution on what water system?

What is the Ganges River?

400

What is a command economy and which country is closest to a command economy?

What is an economy controlled by the government instead of the people.  Government decides what to produce, how to produce and for whom to produce.  North Korea at 95% government control.

400

During the Cultural Revolution, which people were most targeted by the government and persecuted or exiled?

What is intellectuals and members of the middle and upper class?

400

Why and how did the US help rebuild Japan after WW2?

We helped rebuild because we destroyed Japan with atomic bombs and because we wanted to make sure they would be an ally and not become communist like other countries in Asia were. 

We helped them by rebuilding the infrastructure, set up a democratic govt, write a constitution, rebuild the economy, and took away the military

500

What river is found in northern India?

What is Ganges River?

500

Industrial waste, agricultural runoff and lack of water purification plants are all causes of pollution on what water system?

What is the Yangtze River?

500

What is a mixed economy?

What is an economy having some government and some citizen control?

500

Why was the Great Leap Forward considered a failure?

What is because is caused economic depression and famine throughout China?

500

What is the Domino Theory and how did it play a role in the US's involvement in the Korean and Vietnam Wars?

What is when one country becomes communist the others around it will also?  How it played a role is by trying to stop communism from spreading into South Korea, stop communism from spreading into Southern Vietnam, Cold War with Soviet Union, gain democratic ally countries

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