Global Events
This global pandemic reshaped life around the world starting in 2020.
What is COVID-19?
Between 2020 and 2025, rapid growth in this type of vehicle significantly reduced emissions in many countries.
What are electric vehicles (EVs)?
TIME’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year was this K-pop-inspired animated hit.
What is KPop Demon Hunters?
This company’s viral language models helped reshape computing in the 2020s.
What is OpenAI?
The 2022 FIFA World Cup was hosted by this Middle Eastern country.
What is Qatar?
This country invaded Ukraine in 2022, starting a major ongoing war.
What is Russia?
A 2023 scientific report confirmed that this protective atmospheric layer is slowly recovering due to reduced use of harmful chemicals.
What is the ozone layer?
In 2025, Lady Gaga, Green Day, and Post Malone headlined this festival in the California desert.
What is Coachella?
This social platform rebranded itself as “X,” sparking headlines in the tech world.
What is Twitter?
In 2021 this delayed major set of global sports events was finally held.
What are the Tokyo Olympics?
In 2023 conflict between Hamas and Israel began with a major attack on this date.
What is October 7, 2023?
This global agreement aims to limit warming but missed some key goals by 2025.
What is the Paris Agreement?
This streaming hit song from Jungkook and The Weeknd topped charts globally.
What is “Luna Nights”?
Released in 2020, this gaming console by Sony sold out worldwide due to high demand.
What is the PlayStation 5?
A famous ship blocking global trade in 2021 brought attention to this canal.
What is the Suez Canal blockage?
In 2021 the U.S. completed this controversial military withdrawal that saw Kabul fall to the Taliban.
What is the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan?
This 2025 international climate conference saw stronger commitments from major emitters.
What is COP30?
Two 2020s films that became iconic in part due to a mash-up fan reaction called “Barbenheimer.”
What are Barbie and Oppenheimer?
In 2022, the European Union passed a law requiring most devices to use this common charging port.
What is USB-C?
In 2025, this golfer completed a career Grand Slam by winning The Masters in a dramatic playoff, a rare achievement in golf.
Who is Rory McIlroy?
n tensions from the early 2020s, this U.S. strike killed an Iranian general in Baghdad.
Who was Qasem Soleimani?
In 2023 and 2024, scientists confirmed that this natural phenomenon helped push global temperatures to record highs.
What is El Niño?
The 2025 Met Gala made waves with futuristic looks by these two stars.
Who are Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet?
This medical innovation played a key role in combating the pandemic.
What are mRNA vaccines?
This major U.S. sports scandal and tragedy in 2022 rocked national conversations on safety.
What is the Uvalde school shooting?