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 expirimenting 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.

1940

 * Theo and Cheyenne perfect the Turbofan, and the Scramjet, research begins on the P-51 Mustang.
 * 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.

1941

 * The Empire of Japan attacks Pearl Harbor and crushes the Pacific Fleet.
 * Germany declares war on the US.
 * The US military commissions the Goddard Team, and Dorathy to begin a series of advanced weapons for the war effort.
 * The Goddard Team begins developing the first practical VTOL craft.
 * Tim developes a radio guided bomb.

1942

 * The M1 Automatic Rifle is developed, and issued as the standard infrantry weapon of the US military. It is an electronically fired caseless weapon, and is incapable of jamming.
 * The P-51 Mustang begins testing for combat.
 * 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 caseless weapon. It is made standard on all ships.
 * The Soviet Union and Germany Sign a military assistance pact.
 * The Battle of Bataan yeilds a crushing defeat to the Japanese Forces, General McCarther secures the Philippines.

1943

 * The P-51 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.
 * The B-29 Superfortress is put into service. It is similar in design to the B-52.
 * China orchastrates a massive offensive against the Japanese, using the distraction the US launches a full scale invasion of Japan, crushing their Navy with the new F4-Corsair, a jet fighter similar to the F-4 Phantom, and acheiving air superiority almost immediately. After months of strategic bombardment, the Empire of Japan surrenders to the US on October 4th.

1944

 * The Dewy Class Submarine is put into production, it is the first ballistic missile attack submarine.
 * 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 Germans transfer Rommel, and his entire army to defend Germany directly.
 * October: Italy falls to the British.
 * December: The Battle of the Bulge: US forces push through the German line and create a bulge on the front line, hence the name.
 * By year's end the US is only twenty miles outside of Berlin. Hitler calls on the Soviets for help.

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's borders are comparable to the modern ones of OTL, 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 geater ally to the US in ATL, is given control over Eastern Siberia, while Japan looses the same amount of territory in this timeline.
 * The UH-1 Harrier is put into service. It is a tiltrotar helicoptor, similar to the V-22.
 * The Soviet Union push the US back to the Rhine.
 * The Manhattan Project succeeds in the developement of an Atomic Bomb. President Roosevelt orders the use of the Bomb on the Cologne (The Soviet's highest concentration of troops in Germany.
 * March: Germany Falls, Hitler is captured by the Marines.
 * President Roosevelt Dies, Henry A. Wallace succeeds him.
 * The US drops a second bomb on Minsk, Russia surrenders by the end of the year.

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.
 * As a gift to the United States for their efforts to protect their empire, Great Britain gives Canada to the Americans (in actuality it was cheaper to get rid of the Dominion than deal with growing anti-imperialist sentiment.)
 * 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, Germany, and Italy 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.
 * GM unveils the Corvette.
 * Lockheed begins development of the HU-5 Atlas, a much larger Tilt Rotor craft capable of heavy lifting.
 * NASA lands Allan Shepherd 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 ICBMs, stating, "There are too many bombs as it is, why should we build more?"
 * In Cuba, Batiste is overthrown by pro-American revolutionaries. 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.
 * 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."
 * 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.

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.

1976

 * Jimmy Carter is Elected President of the United States, he promises to begin rapid efforts towards global nuclear disarmerment.
 * NASA discovers evidence of fosilized life on Mars, and liquid water.
 * The European Federation unifies as a single Parlimentary Democracy