2000s (decade)

<imagemap>File:2000s decade montage3.png|From left, clockwise: The World Trade Center on fire and the Statue of Liberty during the 9/11 attacks; the euro enters into European currency in 2002; a statue of Saddam Hussein being toppled during the Iraq War; U.S. troops heading toward an army helicopter during the War on Terror; social media through the Internet spreads across the world; a Chinese soldier gazes at the 2008 Summer Olympics commencing; an economic crisis, the largest since the Great Depression, hits the world in 2008; a tsunami from the Indian Ocean following an earthquake kills over 250,000 on Boxing Day, 2004.|420px|thumb rect 1 1 234 178 September 11 attacks rect 236 1 371 178 Euro rect 374 1 495 181 Iraq War rect 244 181 495 326 War on Terror rect 327 330 494 486 Social media rect 165 330 324 487 2008 Summer Olympics rect 1 331 163 487 Financial crisis of 2007–08 rect 3 181 241 327 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami desc bottom-left </imagemap>