South Africa, which is in Africa :)
Osama Bin Laden
Before WWI, Russia had been ruled by Tsars, similar to Kings. After WWI, Russia was a communist country known as the Soviet Union. It would be a communist country until 1990, when it became Russia again.
Mary I, Queen of Scots, ruled over one country, which was Scotland. She was the queen of Scotland from 1542 until her forced abdication in 1567.
The United States became the most influential democratic nation in the world. The Soviet Union became the world's most powerful Communist country. Tensions between the two groups led to a situation known as the Cold War, which lasted until the Soviet Union disintegrated in the early 1990s
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Denmark
South Africa
Although the South Afrikaners still spoke the Dutch language, Britain pretty well controlled commerce in South Africa...until white rule disappeared altogether in the 1990s.
He was the king of Jordan.
Russia was known as the Soviet Union until 1991, when its communist government collapsed.
The Hashmite Kingdom of Jordan
Spain. http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/bras.html
South Africa
Ford did not publish or rate automobiles until the 1990s
Russia was ruled by czars (alternate spellings: tzar, tsar, csar) until about 1900 when the Russian royal family was executed in a populist uprising.
Fidel Castro ruled Cuba though 1959 to 2008.