I also went with the 00's. No major wars...
How can anyone say 1900-09 was "uninteresting?
The first heavier-than-air aircraft.
The first transatlantic/long-range radio.
The political lead-up to WW1 - the Triple Entente etc.
The first Dreadnoughts.
Einstein's Theories of Relativity.
Quantum Mechanics.
(Just off the top of my head).
And I CANNOT think of an "uninteresting" decade of the 20th Century. Sorry.
This may be nitpicking, but while they might not of had a World War, they had the Boer War and the Russo Japanese War, so nothing so much better than say the 1920's in that respect.
But the 1920's had the Great Depression.
It's hard to say any decade is uninteresting, because everything has something going on. Personally, I'd probably lean towards the 2000s.
Exactly!
Not to mention the rise of Imperial Japan, US industrialisation, the birth of the commonwealth and other such interests.
Nay, the 1920s were more 'boring', but then much the same could be said about the 1990s.
Indeed, in the end, I went for the 1900-1909, myself.
I don't understand why the 90's were so "boring"; the whole mess in the Balkans and the break-up of the USSR?