What was the most based decade in the 20th century?

[JambledUpWords]

This is obviously based on an American perspective, but for those outside the US, feel free to offer your own insight because one country’s based decade can be another country’s cringe decade.

1900s:
Based

• The Hay–Pauncefote Treaty of 1901 allows for building of the Panama Canal, making trade easier
• Big stick ideology by Theodore Roosevelt takes hold and creates a foreign policy that makes the US get taken more seriously by other nations
• The Wright Brothers make the first airplane in 1903

Cringe

• Poor working conditions people faced gave them more health problems, but it also helped create some of the amazing things we see today, such as the Chrysler building
• FBI is established in 1908
• NAACP founded in 1909

1910s
Based

• SCOTUS breaks up Standard Oil, one of the biggest monopolies of the time
• Indy 500 starts in 1911
• First assembly lines started by Henry Ford

Cringe

• 16th Amendment starts income tax
• 17th Amendment allows for senators to get elected through popular vote over electoral vote
• 18th Amendment starts prohibition
• The US enters WWI

1920s
Based

• First radio broadcasts in 1920
• Emergency Quota Act established helps put cap on immigration numbers per year
• Charles Lindbergh makes first trans-Atlantic flight

Cringe

• Volstead Act passed to enforce prohibition
• St. Valentines Day Massacre
• Overall rise in mob activity due to prohibition
• Wall Street Crash in 1929

1930s
Based

• First frozen foods sold
• Air mail service across the Atlantic begins
• Radar invented
• Nuclear fission discovered
• Chocolate chip cookies invented
• Zippers become widely used

Cringe

• The Great Depression lasts nearly the whole decade
• The Great Plains is devastated by the Dust Bowl

1940s
Based

• Rise in industrialization during WWII helps the US exit the Great Depression
• Creation of the earliest computers
• Transistor invented
• Microwave invented

Cringe

• Lots of people die from WWII
• The League of Nations is dissolved, only to create the United Nations in its place
• NATO created
• Cold War begins shortly after WWII

1950s
Based

• Some of the best economic prosperity is seen in the United States as a result of WWII
• The middle class increased greatly in this decade
• Watson and Crick discover the structure of DNA
• First organ transplants done in 1954

Cringe

• The US enters the Korean War
• Latin America becomes a playground between the US and Soviets, helping create turmoil in many nations

1960s
Based

• First high-speed railways developed
• First working laser developed in 1960
• First satellites

Cringe

• Start of Vietnam War
• Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962

1970s
Based

• First commercial microprocessor
• First video games made
• First MRI images

Cringe

• Oil Crisis
• Kent State shooting
• Crime rates increase
• Stagflation experienced for first time

1980s
Based

• The personal computer exploded in popularity during this decade
• Beginning of the modern modems in computers
• First mobile phones
• World Wide Web created

Cringe

• Neoliberalism becomes more popular in this decade
• War on Drugs
• Still the Cold War

1990s
Based

• End of the Soviet Union
• Steady economic growth in the US

Cringe

• Oklahoma City Bombing (because it made people sympathize with feds more in the aftermath)
• Columbine Shooting (as it helped push more gun control measures)
• Gun Free Zones Act passed in 1990

Obviously, some things in the cringe categories caused more based things to happen later, and both categories feed into each other. This is not definitive and it’s highly generalized to make reading easier. This is very America-centric, so some obvious important worldwide events aren’t mentioned. Of the decades, I’d actually say the 1930s were the most based. Despite the hardship, lots of important technologies were invented and it arguably helped harden people enough to fight in WWII. No decade to me is absolutely perfect, and that’s why each one has its fair share of cringe.

 

[Crysocyan]

1980:

• Swift foxes are brought back from extirpation in parts of North America.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

The 1980s had a conservative revival with Reagan, yet wasn't as conformist nor excessively prudish as the '50s, so the '80s?

(Also isn't "cucked" the opposite of "based"?)

 

[Johnny Salami]

>Stock market crash
>cringe
Wish we had more video of stock brokers jumping out of buildings

 

[Homoturk]

1930's are pure kino in terms of music
1920's has the most interesting small scale conflicts
anything after 1945 is boring except the rise of the iNTERNET

 

[BlerdBjern]

1960's because we went to the fucking moon.

 

[raspberry mocha]

The 1930s because, well, you know

 

[moseph.jartelli]

www was created in the 90s noob. Proposed in 1989

The 30s were based because Nazis were so diverse. Letting all those faggots run the SA was a win for homos everywhere

 

[ShittlerNiggler]

1900s
Europeans were never so powerful before. One of the most based wars, the Boxer War also happened at the time. Japan also became a prominent power at the time, despite it being an underdeveloped country just 40 years earlier.

 

[Suburban Bastard]

Why the 2020s of course.
We live in an absolute sea of laughter full of users who are prone to sharing too much info, like all their hilarious sexual fetishes, their 20 word long political ideology they got from playing hearts of iron 4, or what position they placed in a speech and debate tournament a decade back!

 

[Johnny Eastwood cash]

The 1930s kind of

 

[Beak Thing]

I think the 1900s were the only one without some kind of genocide going on. People really enjoyed killing each other in the 20th century.

 

[Wesley Willis]

Is the internet autist version of Civil War reenactments?

 

[ShittlerNiggler]

I think the 1900s were the only one without some kind of genocide going on

>Second Boer War
Eternal A*glo hands typed this post

 

[Hüftpriester]

1980s most based for sure. Used to love listening to my walkman as I took in the view of the city from my office window.

 

[Beak Thing]

>Second Boer War
Eternal A*glo hands typed this post

Dankie, I knew there had to be one.

It wouldn't be industrial civilization without a genocide once a decade.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

The 1980s had a conservative revival with Reagan, yet wasn't as conformist nor excessively prudish as the '50s, so the '80s?

(Also isn't "cucked" the opposite of "based"?)

The 50's were centrally-planned as fuck. The United States during the 1950's was "conservative" in the same way the Soviet Union and modern-day North Korea is conservative

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

Without a doubt the 1930s.