Japanese forces launch a sneak attack against Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, drawing the United States into World War II. (Historical accounts.)
1944
In an alternate timeline, the Nazi regime, aided by temporal agents from the future, successfully invades the United States, as a final battle ground for the Temporal Cold War. Sent from the future, Captain Archer and the Enterprise NX-01 are successful in restoring the proper timeline. (“Storm Front, Parts I & II” [ENT])
1945
German forces surrender.
Japanese forces surrender after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nakasaki; World War II is ended.
The United Nations established. (Contemporary accounts.)
1947
It is reported that observers in Roswell, New Mexico, find a strange craft, and its crew, crashed in the desert. Officials claim the object was a weather balloon. People begin to believe beings from outer space are visiting Earth. (Contemporary accounts, “Little Green Men” [DS9])
Test pilot Chuck Yeager travels faster than the speed of sound in a new rocket-powered plan. Yeager’s supersonic flight begins the Jet Age. (Contemporary accounts.)
1953
Izak Ison is born. (December 21.)
1957
Sputnik-1 becomes Earth’s first artificial satellite. It has a profound affect on the world and enables Russia to take the lead in early Terran space development. Earth’s Space Age, and the so-called space race, begins. A Vulcan observation ship crash lands on Earth, remaining for several months before they are rescued. (Contemporary accounts, “Carbon Creek” [ENT])
1958
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