history timeline By lharper@sunapeeschools.org Mar 4, 1861 President Lincoln Apr 12, 1861 Civil War 1861-1865 Period: Apr 12, 1861 to Apr 9, 1865 Civil War Period: Apr 9, 1865 to Mar 4, 1876 Reconstruction 1865-1876 Apr 15, 1865 Andrew Johnson Mar 4, 1869 Ulysses S Grant Mar 4, 1871 Rutherford B Mar 4, 1881 James Garfield Sep 19, 1881 Chester Arthur Mar 4, 1885 Grover Cleveland Mar 4, 1889 Benjamin Harrison Period: Jan 1, 1890 to Jan 1, 1920 Progressive Era Mar 4, 1893 Grover Cleveland Mar 4, 1897 William Mckinley Sep 14, 1901 Theodore Roosevelt Mar 4, 1909 William Howard Taft Aug 13, 1913 Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) Aug 1, 1914 World war 1: Germany Declares war Apr 4, 1917 World war 1: President Wilson Declares war on Germany Nov 11, 1918 World war 1: Fighing Ends Germany sings peace agreement Aug 13, 1921 Warren G. Harding (1921-1923) Aug 13, 1923 Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929 Aug 13, 1929 Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) Aug 13, 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945) Period: Sep 1, 1939 to Sep 2, 1945 World War 2 Dec 7, 1941 bombing on pearl harber Aug 13, 1945 Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) Period: Jun 25, 1950 to Jul 27, 1953 Korean war Aug 13, 1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961) Aug 13, 1961 John F. Kennedy (1961-1963) Period: Oct 14, 1962 to Oct 28, 1962 Cuban missile crisis Aug 13, 1963 Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969) Period: Aug 7, 1964 to Mar 1, 1973 vietnam war Aug 13, 2015 Richard M. Nixon (1969-1974)
