Hinduism Basics
The cycle of life, death, and reincarnation
Answer: What is samsara?
The first failed British colony in North America
Answer: What is Roanoke?
Disputed region between India and Pakistan
Answer: What is Kashmir?
Only time nuclear weapons were used in war
Answer: What is World War II (against Japan)?
Leader of the Chinese Communist Party who founded the PRC
Answer: Who is Mao Zedong?
A code of living based on morality and duty
Answer: What is dharma?
Indian soldiers who revolted in 1857
Answer: Who are sepoys?
Number of major wars fought between India and Pakistan
Answer: What is four?
Strategy where both sides would be destroyed in nuclear war
Answer: What is Mutually Assured Destruction?
Nationalist party in China during the Civil War
Answer: What is the Kuomintang (KMT)?
Release from the cycle of reincarnation
Answer: What is moksha?
Term for direct British rule in India after 1858
Answer: What is the British Raj?
The 1971 war was mainly about this country gaining independence
Answer: What is Bangladesh?
Idea that having nuclear weapons prevents attack
Answer: What is deterrence?
Where the Nationalists fled after losing the Civil War
Answer: What is Taiwan?
The three gods that make up the main Hindu divine force
Answer: What are Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva?
The event that split India along religious lines in 1947
Answer: What is Partition?
The major factor that prevents full-scale war between India and Pakistan
Answer: What is nuclear deterrence?
Treaty aimed at limiting nuclear weapons
Answer: What is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)?
Mao’s failed industrialization plan that caused famine
Answer: What is the Great Leap Forward?
The rigid social hierarchy in Hindu society
Answer: What is the caste system?
Modern country that was originally part of Pakistan after Partition
Answer: What is Bangladesh?
Country that supports Pakistan and increases tension with India
Answer: What is China?
Two countries in this unit that have nuclear weapons but did NOT sign the NPT
Answer: What are India and Pakistan?
Movement led by Mao to purge “old ideas” and preserve communism
Answer: What is the Cultural Revolution?