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  • The Timeline Starts

    The Project begins here.

  • Star Spangled Banned becomes the National Anthem of the United States

  • FDR becomes President of the United States

  • Amelia Earhart flies across the Atlantic Ocean

  • Adolf Hitler rises to power in Germany

  • The Republican River Flood enters Nebraska.

    The flood killed hundreds of Nebraskans.

  • The 1936 Olympic Games are held.

    A Black American named Jesse Owens earns four gold medals and breaks multiple world records.

  • Amelia Earhart goes missing

    After attempting to fly over the Pacific, she vanishes without a trace.

  • The Great Flood damages cities along the Ohio River

  • First Intercontinental Commercial Airline takes flight

    The plane flies over the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Germany Invades Poland

    The Invasion prompts Great Britain to declare war on them, forcing allies of both parties to begin World War 2.

  • Auschwitz Opens

    Over a Million people will be slaughtered in this camp alone.

  • Britain successfully evacuates Dunkirk.

  • Bugs Bunny is born.

  • FDR is reelected for the third time

    Such a term was unknown to America prior.

  • Ho Chi Minh forms the Communist Viet Minh

    This formation will start the Vietnam War.

  • The Nazis siege of Leningrad begins.

  • Operation Barbarossa ends

    The operation, despite being ruthless and gruesome, fails.

  • Japanese Americans are relocated to Internment Camps

  • The Manhattan Project begins.

  • Hiroshima is demolished by a Nuclear Bomb.

    This, and the Nagasaki bombing immediately after, will mark the defeat of the Imperial Japanese.

  • The Korean War Begins.

  • Color TV is invented

  • Princess Elizabeth rises to power

    Elizabeth enters the British throne after the death of her father. She will rule to the present day.

  • Stalin dies of an Aneurysm.

  • Mount Everest is conquered.

    Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay succeed in England's ninth expedition to climb the mountain.

  • Brown v. Board is brought to the Supreme Court.

    The United States legal system decided that Segregation is illegal.

  • Disney Manifests.

    Disney will build their first Theme park at the Disneyland resort in California.

  • McDonald's Manifests.

    The massive food conglomerate was founded by two brothers.

  • James Dean is killed in a Car Accident.

    He was 24 years old and only starred in three movies

  • Sputnik is Launched

    The Soviet satellite will motivate the United States to launch the first-ever successful expedition to the moon.

  • The Timeline Ends

    The Project stops here.

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