What are world-changing creations made by a country other than the US?

Almost all the global society-altering creations i can think of FROM THE PAST 100 YEARS are from America. I highly doubt that’s true, so I’m looking for counter-examples.

To clarify, I’m looking for items on the level of:

• the internet
• rock music
• nuclear weapons
• ai
• airplane flight (older than 100 years)

And clearly I’m not just including things that improved the world.

The best ones i can think of are (I think):

• Rocketry (Germany)?
• Cheap tech manufacturing (Asian countries)?

EDIT:

Actually rocketry has been around much longer than 100 years. Even the category of “modern rocketry” begins in the late 1800s. Source: www.grc.nasa.gov/www/…/history_of_rockets.html

EDIT 2:

A further explanation of what level I’m talking about.

There has to be a clear before and after, and it has to directly and quickly effect most of the world. For example the Internet. There’s life before the internet, and there’s life after the internet, which are both very different.

As opposed to for example if someone makes a groundbreaking foundational research discovery that effects the entire realm of their field of study, but doesn’t quickly and directly create a difference in most people’s lives, then it doesn’t fit the category.

Sputnik, Vostok, the artificial heart, multi-stage rocketry, and space rovers were all invented by the Soviets.

First satellite! Yes! Great one!

As for the rest, they don’t meet the criteria. I don’t know what vostok is and a web search doesn’t show anything. And the others aren’t on the same level of world-changing, even though they’re extremely important and impressive

Vostok 1 was the capsule that contained Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space. All of these were critical advancements in space flight and science. What is the criterion for “world changing” that doesn’t include the numerous critical advancements in space?

Again, first satellite! Great example! And an absolute first achievement in rocketry!

First man in space is close, but it’s not as world changing, more of a synthetic goal post that was reached. There’s no actual border between space vs not space, it’s just a synthetic line we drew arbitrarily at exactly 100 km.

But a satellite is an altogether different thing. That’s the first thing humans ever pushed up that didn’t immediately fall back to earth after it stopped being pushed upward. A true and massive achievement, and that achievement created brand new world-changing technologies in communications, created breakthroughs in almost all branches of sciences, changed how we humans live through gps, and all the zillion other world-changing advanced that flowed as a direct immediate consequence

Surviving in space and successfully returning from orbit is absolutely an incredible achievement that spurred on the space race.

I agree, but it’s not a world-changing breakthrough. There had previously been humans extremely high up, but they just didn’t cross above the synthetic threshold we randomly drew

EDIT

Nope, i was totally wrong. I did some reading and it’s clear that Yuri’s flight was absolutely world-changing

That’s why I am asking what counts as “world-changing,” as most people would consider the first man in space to be world-changing.