2000s

File:2000s decade montage3.png|From top left, clockwise: The Twin Towers of the original World Trade Center on fire and the Statue of Liberty on the left during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001; the euro enters into European currency in 2002; a statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled during the Iraq War in 2003, and in 2006, Hussein would be executed for crimes against humanity; U.S. troops heading toward an army helicopter in Afghanistan during the war on terror; social media platforms and the internet become widely popular; a Chinese soldier gazes at the 2008 Summer Olympics commencing in Beijing; the 2008 financial crisis, the largest financial crisis since the Great Depression; a tsunami from the Indian Ocean earthquake kills over 230,000 in 2004, and becomes the strongest earthquake since the 1964 Alaska earthquake|335px|thumb rect 1 1 234 178 September 11 attacks rect 236 1 371 178 Euro rect 374 1 495 90 91 181 Iraq War rect 244 181 366 326 369 181 495 War on Terror rect 327 330 494 486 Social media rect 165 330 324 487 2008 Beijing Olympics rect 1 331 163 487 2008 financial crisis rect 3 181 241 327 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami desc bottom-left

The 2000s (pronounced "two-thousands"; shortened to the 00s and also known as the aughts in American English or the noughties in British English) was the decade that began on January 1, 2000, and ended on December 31, 2009.