World History People and Places AD 1948 - Present
| What Chinese Marxist leader drove the Nationalists to Taiwan in 1949 and ruled until his death in 1976? | Mao Zedong |
| What World War II French leader initially violently resisted independence for its colonies into the early 1960's? | Charles de Gaulle |
| What are the poorer countries who remained independence of the Western and communists alliances called? | Third World |
| What American President brought an end to the Soviet’s ‘evil empire’ through an accelerated the arms race in the 1980's? | Ronald Reagan |
| Who became the first black president of South Africa in 1994 after the racist apartheid (segregation) ended? | Nelson Mandela |