Engine of Progress

2010
When returning to their dorm to grab a lost computer, Theo Bell, Rob Grandon, Tim Pasco, Dorothy Griffin, and Cheyenne Space are transported to 1938 along with their school campus.

1938
The five students decide that the likelihood of returning to their time is slim to none, and elect to start new lives in the past with the hopes of ending World War Two much sooner, and at a lesser cost than in their time. Skilled in Electrical, Aerospace, and Mechanical Engineering Theo, Cheyenne, Rob, and Tim decide to make their way to Roswell, New Mexico to join Dr. Goddard's team and advance space technology. Dorothy, and Biologist, decides to make her way to Carnegie Mellon to advance genetics.
 * By August 1938 the four engineers are working with Dr. Goddard to build the first rocket capable of space flight. Designed mainly by Theo, the rocket is nearly twenty feet tall, and utilizes Hybrid Rocket Propulsion, similar to OTL SpaceShipTwo. With advanced transistors built by Tim, and an Aerospace Engine designed by Rob, the Rocket launches the first artificial satellite by the end of the year. It is identical to OTL Sputnik.
 * Dorothy has successfully entered Carnegie, but not without a confrontation with 1930s sexism. Her work with Eugenics however, quickly erases all doubts to her ability. Using her knowledge of Rosalind Franklin's study of the Genome, Dorothy proves the existance of the double helix by November. She is hailed, much like her friends, for changing the course of history.

1939

 * Nazi Germany invades Poland.
 * The Goddard Team launches the first communication satellite, they place a call from New Mexico to London to wish King George VI a happy birthday.
 * Dorothy and her colleagues begin experimenting with Adult Stem Cells, they perfect a technique that heals third degree burns in less than a week.
 * President Roosevelt contracts the Goddard Team to work for the US Army Air Corps on a secret project to develop the first ICBMs. To finance the project all funding is pulled from bomber development.
 * The first series of spy satellites are launched into orbit. They are equipped with the first digital cameras to digitally relay images directly to the Office of Naval Intelligence.

1940

 * Theo and Cheyenne perfect the Turbofan, and the Scramjet, research begins on the F-1 Mustang (It is not a Pursuit aircraft, but rather a fighter since all bombers are being retired to make way for the ICBMs.)
 * Tim designs a computer comparable to the CER-22 (the first transistor based computer.)
 * Dorothy builds a stem cell gun, capable of spraying an even coat of raw human stem cells to heal wounds.
 * The Winter War Begins.
 * The first electronically fired gun is built by Theo, Rob, and Tim.
 * The Goddard Team tests the first ICBM, it works flawlessly.

1941

 * The Empire of Japan stages the attack on the US at Pearl Harbor, but is only able to achieve a marginal success thanks to US spy satellites relaying the positions of the fleet. Japan is only able to destroy a few ships of the fleet, while its carriers were completely decimated by the awaiting US fleet. While Pearl Harbor became more of a battle than an attack, the psychological damage is done. The US declares war on Japan just as they would have in OTL.
 * President Roosevelt orders the construction of a missile launch sights at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and Anchorage, Alaska. With Germany expected to declare war as well, he plans an invasion of Greenland to build another launch sight.
 * Germany declares war on the US. By July Nazi intelligence sources have revealed the technological superiority of the US military, causing Hitler to cancel Operation Barbarossa for fear of a combined Western and Eastern front, though at this point little can be done to stop the US from aiding the British.
 * The F-1 undergoes its first test flight.
 * The Goddard Team begins developing the first practical VTOL craft.
 * December: The Anchorage Launch Sight is completed.
 * The Invasion of Greenland: US Forces capture and secure Scoresbysund and begins construction of the new launch sight.

1942

 * The M1 Automatic Rifle is developed, and issued as the standard infantry weapon of the US military. It is an electronically fired casteless weapon, and is incapable of jamming.
 * The military issues Stem Cell guns to all medics.
 * Tim and Rob begins designing an advanced Howitzer, capable of being computer targeted.
 * The BT fuse is introduced in a casteless weapon. It is made standard on all ships.
 * The Soviet Union and Germany Sign a military assistance pact, stating that if any of the Allies reach Berlin the Soviets will declare war on the Allies.
 * The Battle of Bataan yields a crushing defeat to the Japanese Forces, General McCarther secures the Philippines.
 * The US launches a series of Minuteman I ICBMs at major Japanese and German military centers. The missile, while non-nuclear, carries a large tungsten load that acts as a man made meteor.

1943

 * The F-1 is put into full production. It is a jet aircraft similar in design to the F-100 Super Sabre, though has an engine similar to that of the F-15, and is capable of supersonic flight.
 * Cheyenne's Mithril Armor is put into service. It is comparable to OTLs, Dragon Skin.
 * Boeing cancels the B-29 Superfortress when Congress diverts funding towards ICBMs.
 * January: China orchestrates a massive offensive against the Japanese, using the distraction the US launches a full scale invasion of Japan, crushing their Navy with the new F-4 Corsair, a jet fighter similar to the F-4 Phantom, and achieving air superiority almost immediately. After only a month of strategic bombardment via Minuteman ICBMs, the Empire of Japan surrenders to the US on March 4th.
 * The Dewy Class Submarine is put into production, it is the first ballistic missile attack sub.
 * The D-Day invasion begins, and after fourteen hours of fighting, the US achieves a resounding victory with minimal loss of life.
 * August: The Allies Retake France.
 * September: The Nazis transfer Rommel, and the entire 7th Panzer devision to defend Germany from the US.
 * Offshore subs continue to cripple the German military effort. Germany is currently broken and quardinated by only orders from Hitler's secret subterranean bunker in what is left of Berlin.

1944

 * After US attack subs achieve sustained bombardment of the German Northern Front, and begin dropping high yield strikes on German encampments, Hitler calls on the Soviets for support; citing the destruction of Berlin as the Allies reaching the city.
 * January: Italy falls to the British, Germany garrisons itself along the trenches surrounding Berlin and the Austrian Border. Wehrmacht moral is at an all time low, and many German soldiers are surrendering.
 * February: The Battle of the Bulge: Axis forces push through the Allies line and create a bulge on the front line, hence the name.
 * April, The US crushes remaining German holdouts along the Rhine, and secures Düsseldorf.
 * May: The Soviet Union invades Alaska. The Anchorage Launch Sight fires on Soviet Ports and Bases to mitigate further Soviet support.
 * June:President Roosevelt orders a missile strike on Berlin and Moscow.
 * July:The Soviets break through to Cologne and so begins the Battle of the Rhine.
 * The UH-1 Harrier is put into service. It is a tiltrotar helicopter, similar to the V-22.

1945
What had begun as an effort to end the war quickly and with less loss of life, resulted in a war far more bloody than any modern conflict. With the fall of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, Europe is quickly reorganized. Germany is divided into the German Federation and the Rhineland Republic, and Russia has been partioned by the Urals into Moskova, while the Soviet Union remains alive in Western Siberia, and central asia. China, a far greater ally to the US in ATL, is given control over Eastern Siberia, while Japan looses the same amount of territory in this timeline.
 * The Soviet Union is pushed by the US back to the Berlin.
 * March: The Soviet Union marches into Canada, the US National Guard is Federalized and sent to defend against the Soviets. The Pacific fleet is sent to the Bering Straight to engage the Soviet Navy.
 * The Manhattan Project succeeds in the development of an Atomic Bomb. President Roosevelt orders the use of the Bomb on the Berlin and Moscow via the Minuteman II missiles to drive the Soviets to Surrender..
 * March: Germany Falls, Hitler is captured by the Marines in Austria.
 * President Roosevelt Dies, Henry A. Wallace succeeds him.
 * Russia surrenders, Stalin was killed while in the Kremlin, the Soviet Capitol now Minsk is led by Vylachev Molotov.
 * Mao is killed by Chinese forces as he attempts to flee to Tibet.

1946

 * The Nuremberg trials find Adolph Hitler and the Nazi party guilty of crimes against humanity, (though the Holocaust was stopped by December 1944.) He is sentenced to exile in Greenland with the rest of the Nazi elite, where they will be confined to an arctic jail cell for the rest of their days.
 * The UN signs the Decolonization Act.
 * Dorothy founds Griffin Eugenics. They release the stem cell gun to the public.
 * With Canada recovering from the Soviet Invasion and now holding a far greater admiration for their southern neighbors, the former British Dominion elects to join the Union. President Wallace signs the Canadian Session Act by the end of the year. Quebec, however, splits from Canada as its own nation.
 * President Wallace signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating NASA. Theo becomes the agency's chief engineer.
 * Cheyenne becomes the CEO, and majority share holder of Lockheed, she begins development of the Constellation Jet Liner.
 * Rob becomes lead designer for General Motors, he begins research into plug in hybrids.
 * Tim founds Intel,he begins developing the Personal Computer.

1948

 * President Wallace defeats Thomas Dewey in his re-election, he signs the 22nd amendment just before being elected.
 * China begins its industrial revolution under President Chiang Kai-shek, they also begin investing in their own space program.
 * Britain, France, Rhineland, and Sicily found the European Trade Community.
 * The Marshal Plan begins sending aide to Moskova.
 * GM unveils the 1949 Chevy Bel Air, the world's first plug-in electric hybrid. It utilizes similar technology to the Chevy Volt.
 * The Constellation receives acclaim for its long range non-stop flights from Seattle to London.
 * NASA launches the first manned mission to space. Chuck Yeager is the first man in space.

1951

 * GM has extended the Bel Air's platform to all of their cars, and are now dominating the market.
 * Lockheed begins constructing the F-86 Sabre, it is similar in design to the F-15.
 * Griffin Eugenics unveils their new stem cell gun, capable for deep body penetration, it can heal a damaged heart in less than a day. The lifespan of the average American surges to 75 by years end.
 * NASA launches the first manned space station into orbit. Dubbed Sky-Lab, it studies Earth's climate and the Van Allen Belt.
 * China launches their first astronaut into orbit, he completes a space walk, and orbits the earth for 90 minutes.
 * President Wallace signs the American Housing act into effect, guaranteeing a home for every american with new civil works projects.

1952

 * Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected President.
 * President Eisenhower commission the Gemini Program. An effort to build a much larger space station, and the first manned mission to the moon.
 * Ford releases their first Plug-in hybrid.
 * Lockheed puts the Sabre into service.
 * Adolph Hitler dies of colon cancer in his cell in Greenland.

1955

 * The Freedom Star space station is completed, it is capable of housing a crew of ten for two years.
 * China launches their first space station, it is comparable to the Salyut space station.
 * GM unveils the Corvette.
 * Lockheed begins development of the HU-5 Atlas, a much larger Tilt Rotor craft capable of heavy lifting.
 * NASA lands John Glenn as the first man on the moon. He proclaims, "One short hop for a man, one colossal leap for mankind."
 * President Eisenhower vetoes the proposal to develop the Hydrogen Bomb, stating, "There are too many bombs as it is, why should we build more?"
 * In Cuba, Batiste is overthrown by pro-American revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro. The island becomes an incorporated territory to the US.

1960

 * Robert Kennedy wins the Presidency. With his brother Joe dead, and Jack suffering from PTSD, he is the only brother left willing to run.
 * NASA completes construction of Tranquility Base, Buzz Aldrin is its first commander.
 * GM unveils their Jet Rotary engine, the 1960 Corvette is the first car to receive it.
 * Griffin begins the Human Genome Project.
 * Lockheed buys Boeing, they begin construction of the first supersonic jetliner.
 * China begins free trade with the rest of the world.
 * China lands their first man on the moon. The two astronauts meet their rivals at Tranquility Base, and play the first international game of Chinese Checkers in Space.
 * The ETC becomes the European Union after the inclusion of Moskova.

1962

 * President Kennedy announces Project Ares, the first manned mission to Mars.
 * Intel, now the supplier of the world's greatest computers (on par with those of the early 90s.) unveils Project Pandora, the creation of the world wide web.
 * Freedom Star is expanded to handle a twenty man crew.
 * The Soviet Union, under General Secretary Molotov, tests their first Atomic Bomb in Siberia.

1967

 * Theo Bell becomes the first man on Mars. The first words on the Red Planet are, "This is for all those who saw it before we got here."
 * China lands a man on Phoebes, one of Mars's moons, thee months after the American landing.
 * Griffin Genomics completes the Human Genome Project. With the human genome fully sequenced, Griffin unveils a whole new line of treatments from Cancer to Anthrax.
 * Intel unveils the Juke, the world's first digital music player.
 * President Kennedy signs the Universal Healthcare act.

1968

 * Ronald Reagan is elected President of the United States.
 * The Soviet Union sends troops into Moskova, The Frozen War begins.
 * The European Security Corps ralleys behind Moskova.
 * The Republic of China enters the war on the side of the Allies.
 * President Reagan sends troops to assist Moskova.

1972

 * The Soviets drops an atomic bomb just outside of Moscow, radioactive fallout poisons the city.
 * The US responds in kind by dropping a bomb on the Soviet Capitol of Astana.
 * President Reagan is reelected in a sweeping majority.
 * China annexes the remainder of the Soviet Union, though much of the population has left for Moskova.
 * China lands their first team on Mars.

1975

 * Intel unveils the first multi-touch computer interface.
 * GM begins using lithium ion batteries for their vehicles.
 * NASA begins establishing the first Martian base.
 * Griffin begins selling Gene-Mod Pets.
 * Lockheed begins development of a stealth hypersonic fighter.
 * Theo Bell invents the EmDrive, an electro magnetic propulsion system that converts electricity into microwaves for propulsion.

1976

 * Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is Elected the first African American President of the United States, he promises to begin rapid efforts towards global nuclear disarmerment.
 * NASA discovers evidence of fossilized life on Mars, and liquid water, President King approves the expansion of Mariner Base.
 * The European Federation unifies as a single Parliamentary Democracy
 * China begins construction of a Martian Base as well.
 * The UN's Moscow Protocol is put into effect, it provides international subsidies to developing nations.

1978

 * Iran, one of the recipients of the Moscow Protocol sends begins a cultural revolution as their government reforms into a Theocratic Republic, becoming a much more moderate Muslim State.
 * President King signs the Montreal Protocols, outlawing CFCs in aerosol cans in response to the newly confirmed Hole in the Ozone layer.
 * China completes their first base on Mars.
 * Europe begins efforts for a manned mission to the moon.
 * GM releases the first Hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, the Cadillac Proton.
 * Intel begins developing Internet II.
 * Griffin releases a series of Gene-Mod drugs that can increase brain activity, muscle mass, and increase the size of certain extremities ;).

1980

 * President King wins his re-election in a fair majority over challenger George H. W. Bush.
 * Texas outlaws Cosmetic Gene-Mod drugs.
 * Harvey Milk is elected as the first openly gay man to Congress.
 * China proposes the construction of a Bering Strait bridge.
 * NASA begins the Voyager Project, an effort to send a Manned mission to The outer planets by the end of the century.

1984

 * The supreme court rules in Texas v. McCormick that the use of Genetic Modifiers are a type of freedom of expression.
 * Senator John Glenn is elected President of the United States over challenger Governor Harold Stassen.
 * NASA launches the first manned mission to the Jovian Moons, Theo Bell is the mission's captain along side veteran astronaut John Young.
 * China lands the first man on Venus, though due to the extreme heat and pressure of the planet, he only stays on the surface for ten minutes.

1988

 * President Glen wins re-election over Ross Perot.
 * Judith Resnik becomes the first woman on Europa, John Young the first man on Ganymede. The crew discovers water and multicellular life beneath the surface of both cryospheres, it is hailed as the greatest discovery in human history.
 * Europe lands their first person on Mars.

1992
Senator Hillary Diane Rodham becomes the first female president of the United States.

1995
John Young lands his shuttle on Titan, discovery of a methane sea, and simple single celled extremophiles bolsters the growing theory of a living galaxy.

1996
President Rodham loses her re-election to Congressman Ron Paul of Texas, most will blame her loss due to her ties to the firing of intern Monica Lewinski for partisan reasons. Ron Paul is the first Libertarian President.

2000
President Paul wins a second term.

2004
John McCain is elected President.

2008

 * President McCain elects to not run for a second term based on his age. Many expect Governor Bill Richardson to succeed him.
 * The Voyager pushes past pluto and reaches interstellar space, the craft however, is forced to turn around due to limited food and water, and fear of prolonged exposer to galactic radiation. Voyager turns around for a non stop flight back to Earth; ETA ten years.
 * New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson wins the Presidency. He runs on a campaign of continuing the global military drawdown and integration into the UN Multinational Force.