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 Nuremburg trials find Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party guilty of crimes agains humanity, (though the Holocaust was stopped by December 1944.) He is sentenced to exile in Greenland, with the rest of the Nazi elite.