Discusses many of the influential people, events, and cultural developments of the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Welcome to the 2000s -- The USS Cole bombing -- Style of the new millennium -- The disputed election of 2000 -- TV goes digital -- The terror of September 11 -- Striking back at Al-Qaeda -- The dot-com bubble bursts -- Era of the gadgets -- Steroids in sports -- Space shuttle Columbia disaster -- U.S. troops invade Iraq -- Chaos in Iraq -- Hot issues divide society -- Deadly tsunami of 2004 -- Hurricane Katrina strikes -- Massacre at Virginia Tech -- Energy crisis grips the world -- Election of 2008 -- Looking back, moving forward.