The Noughties
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Skinny jeans, Vans or Converse shoes, and casual hairstyles like wings cuts for boys and long straight hair for girls were popular fashion trends of the 2000s. Music in the decade was dominated by artists like Beyonc辿, Eminem, and Britney Spears, and notable events included the deaths of Michael Jackson in 2009 and the start of Lady Gaga's career in 2008. The 2000s also saw Barack Obama elected as the first black US President and Angela Merkel become Germany's first female Chancellor, while conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq continued and the 9/11 terrorist attacks and 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami caused widespread loss of life. Daily use of social media platforms and search engines like Google and
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- 3. MusicBillboard chart named Beyonc辿 as the female artist of the decadeIt also named Eminem as the best-selling artist of the decade, with 32 million copies and Britney as the best-selling artist with over 85 million albums soldIn June 2009 The King of Pop, Michael Jackson died In 2008 the Lady Gaga era started
- 4. Political EventsIn 2009 Obama became the first black President of the United States of AmericaAngela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany in 2005In late 2007 the Global Financial Crisis starts in the USA, and later it affects most of the industrialized worldThe Euro was put in circulation
- 5. TragiceventsOn December 2004, a 9.3 magnitude earthquake generated enormous tsunami waves that killed 230,000 people in IndonesiaThe War in Afghanistan and the Iraq war startedOn September 11th Al-Qaeda crashed two planes into The Twin Towers in New York City (2,992 people died)
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