The most interesting decade from 1900 to present

The most interesting decade


  • Total voters
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1900-1909
1910-1919
1920-1929
1930-1939
1940-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-1999
2000-2009


So what was the most interesting decade so far?
 
My favourite is definitely the 1930's, with the 40's a close runner-up. It's not just the political/war history, though; I'm a big fan of 30's music, and music got awfully awful once the Big Band era began to die circa 1945.
 
Undoubtably the 40s for WWII. The real question should have been the second most interesting decade, which in my opinion is probably the 2000s as that's when everything went wrong.

We'd won the Cold War in the early 90s, the economy across the whole west was looking up, the US was about to start reaping the benefits of the tech boom, the UK had broken stagnation, militant unionism and balanced its budget. We should have settled down to a nice boring period of paying down debts and nudging the Chinese to buck up their human rights, maybe venturing out into short, popular and successful humanitarian wars ever so often. For a while we did .....then it all went a bit wrong with war, more war and toxic debt.
 
1900-1909
1910-1919
1920-1929
1930-1939
1940-1949
1950-1959
1960-1969
1970-1979
1980-1989
1990-1999
2000-2009


So what was the most interesting decade so far?

I do not think this belongs in After 1900. Probably the Non-Political Chat section might be more fitting for these types of polls.
 
1960s in terms of culture, 1940s because it was the last major war between two large alliances containing multiple nation-states.
 
The 60s. You've got the space race going on, some really good TV programmes (especially in the telefantasy and action/adventure genres) and some decent bands starting up.
 
Possibly the 1950s or 1960s. I;ld go for the 50s.

The post-WW2 boom, the formation of NATO/WP the start of the Cold War, the H-Bomb, the Peace Movement, the Civil Rights movement, Rock and Roll, the beginning of Decolonisation, the start of the Space Race.

A lot of old certainties started slipping. Then came the 1960s.
 
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