Contemporary history

time period between January 1, 1901, and ended on December 31, 2000

current century

File:1990s decade montage.png|From top left, clockwise: The Hubble Space Telescope orbits the Earth after it was launched in 1990; American jets fly over burning oil fields in the 1991 Gulf War; the Oslo Accords on 13 September 1993; the World Wide Web gains massive popularity worldwide; Boris Yeltsin greets crowds after the failed August Coup, which leads to the dissolution of the Soviet Union on 26 December 1991; Dolly the sheep is the first mammal to be cloned from an adult somatic cell; the funeral procession of Diana, Princess of Wales, who died in a 1997 car crash, and was mourned by bil

File:2010s collage v22.png|From top left, clockwise: Anti-government protests called the Arab Spring arose in 2010–2011, and as a result, many governments were overthrown, including when Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was killed; Crimea is annexed by Russia in 2014; The Islamic State perpetrates terrorist attacks and captures territory in Syria and Iraq; climate change awareness and the Paris Agreement; the Event Horizon Telescope captures the first image of a black hole in 2019; Obergefell v. Hodges legalizes same-sex marriage in the United States in 2015, marking continuing progress for LGB

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 commen

The 2020s (pronounced "twenty-twenties" or "two thousand [and] twenties") is the current decade that began on 1 January 2020 and will end on 31 December 2029.

millennium spanning the years 1001 to 2000

current millennium, spanning the years 2001 to 3000

military campaign started after September 11 attacks

historical period

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depopulation in humans is any great reduction in a human population caused by events such as long-term demographic trends

USA-led campaign against illegal drug use and trade

subset of modern history that describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present, common in English-language historiography

time period after the Cold War in the 1990's and early 21st century

late modern period

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notion that discrimination against African Americans amounts to genocide

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