Short answers, pulled from the story.
Harm G. Schröter defined Americanization as an adapted transfer of values, behaviors, institutions, technologies, patterns of organization, symbols, and norms from the United States to the economic life of other states.
The cinema of the United States has dominated most of the world's media markets since the 1910s.
The Coca-Cola Company was previously the top global company by revenue giving rise to the term Coca-Cola diplomacy for anything emblematic of U.S. soft power.
The first McDonald's in Soviet Russia had a grand opening on Moscow's Pushkin Square on the 31st of January 1990 with approximately 38,000 customers waiting in hours long lines breaking company records at the time.
Finland has been considered the most Americanized country in Europe since the 1960s.