The United Nations
The number of countries in the UN.
What is 193?
This invention, created by the Wright brothers, allowed for people to easily cross long distances.
What are airplanes?
This invention, created by Alexander Graham Bell, allowed people to connect and talk over vast distances.
What is the telephone?
This gender group, which had been petitioning for years for political representation, got the right to vote in America and other places in the 20th and 21st centuries.
What are women?
Many people view this, the spread of culture and ideas from the Western world, as a negative effect of Globalization.
What is Westernization?
The slightly controversial organization the UN set up to provide financial aid to developing countries.
What is the International Monetary Fund? (INF)
These giant metal boxes have allowed for more goods to be transported globally, contributing to the globalized economy.
What are shipping containers?
These medical breakthroughs have helped humanity nearly eradicate many deadly diseases, such as Polio.
What are vaccines?
These online platforms were a more recent development, but they have allowed for people to make social connections with people worldwide. In some cases, people have even organized revolutions on them!
What is social media?
Unfortunately, due to increased human longevity, this memory disease is becoming more common.
What is Alzheimer's?
In 1948, the UN issued this declaration, proclaiming that everyone has certain rights that no one can take away.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
These machines have come a long way since the days of Henry Ford.
What are cars?
An economy that is driven not by manufacturing but by specific skills, like Silicon Valley for creating tech innovations.
What is a knowledge economy?
As a result of globalized culture, this famous American soda brand became a global brand. (And even had an Olympic ad at the 2026 Winter Games)
What is Coca-Cola?
Many diseases are becoming associated with impoverished countries, such as this disease that had a major epidemic in Africa at the beginning of the 21st century.
What is Ebola?
The WTO was established to protect this international economic system.
What is Free Trade?
Ronald Reagan implemented this economic plan after he took office to try and rid America of the New Deal reforms. While some of his reforms worked to an extent, the U.S. also plunged deeper into national debt. Oopsies
What were Reaganomics?
This "revolution" used genetic technology and new farming Innovations to help create new kinds of sustainable crops, leading to a major population boom.
What was the Green Revolution?
Also due to a globalized culture, this massively popular animation style made its way to America.
What is anime?
Although it is the subject of massive debate, due to fossil fuels and environmental degradation, this is occurring to our planet.
What is climate change? (would also accept global warming)
In November-December of 1999, these massive protests occurred outside the WTO's summit, protesting for anti-globalization. Police used tear gas and rubber bullets on the crowd, and eventually the National Guard was called in.
What was the Battle for Seattle?
Deng Xiaoping classified his new Chinese economic system as this. He implemented agricultural reforms and an Open Door Policy.
What is a "socialist market economy?"
This antibiotic has been adopted worldwide and is used to treat many deadly diseases and infections.
What is penicillin?
This technological advancement massively empowered women and gave them more rights by allowing them to choose whether or not they wanted to be fertile.
What is birth control?
While nuclear technology is actually really safe if you do it right, you could still end up with disasters like this famous nuclear meltdown that happened near the Ukraine.
What was Chernobyl?