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  1. The 1990s began on December 25, 1991 and ended on September 11, 2001. I'm a lot less sure about when the 2000s ended, but May 2, 2011 seems like a solid bookend to a decade which began the way this one did.

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    The 1990s (often referred to as the "'90s" or "Nineties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1990, and ended on December 31, 1999. Known as the "post-Cold War decade", the 1990s are culturally imagined as the period from the Revolutions of 1989 until the September 11 attacks in 2001.

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  4. On the political front, the decades-long Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union, creating a new world order. And while the Persian Gulf War lasted less than a year, it had an enduring impact. The 1990s were also marked by a number of influential cultural events.

  5. 1990s. The 1990s is often remembered as a decade of relative peace and prosperity: The Soviet Union fell, ending the decades-long Cold War, and the rise of the Internet ushered in a radical new...

  6. Dec 4, 2018 · The 1990s did not end on January 1, 2000. The monumental anti-climax of Y2K — a computer “bug” that was supposed to screech our Earth to a Scooby-Doo foot-cloud halt, but instead did bupkis — was a truly apt expression of the preceding decade.

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  7. Feb 5, 2015 · For the political theorist Francis Fukuyama, history ended in 1989 – the big questions had all been answered, and the ‘90s were the first decade of a final era of democratic capitalism.

  8. Mar 17, 2017 · It felt like nothing. It felt blank. In 1992, Francis Fukuyama declared the end of history and everyone believed it.

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