Modern History By PillowFightMan Feb 11, 1847 Thomas Edison Jul 30, 1863 Henry Ford The cars THE CARS!!! Period: 1864 to 1943 George Washington Carver Made lots of foods. Made peanut butter Nov 6, 1869 First Transcontinental Railroad Period: Aug 10, 1874 to Oct 20, 1964 Herbert Hoover Period: Jan 30, 1882 to Apr 12, 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt Dec 17, 1903 The Wright Brothers They made the plane Jan 9, 1913 Richard Nixon Period: Mar 4, 1913 to Mar 4, 1931 Woodrow wilson Jul 14, 1913 Gerald Ford Jun 28, 1914 Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand A Serbian person killed Archduke which made Austria declare war on Serbia that caused WW1 Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918 World War I Oct 1, 1924 Jimmy Carter Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945 World War II Dec 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor Apr 12, 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt died Jun 8, 1945 Atomic bomb on Hiroshima Sep 8, 1945 Atomic bomb on Nagasaki 1950 Communism Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953 Korean War 1954 Brown vs. the Board of Education Period: 1954 to 1968 Civil right movements Period: Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975 Vietnam War Aug 13, 1961 The wall of Berlin Aug 28, 1963 March on Washington Jul 20, 1969 Apollo 11