1932 - Jimmy Doolittle dies in a plane crash.
1935 - Plans to test 100 octane gasoline never take place because of the inability to find a pilot dedicated enough to the program.
1938 - Plans to expand the Japanese Carrier fleet and build the Zero Fighter curtailed because of lack of performance of Carrier Aircraft versus land based bombers. U.S. and U.K. curtail building of long range bombers for the same reason.
Chamberlain receives intelligence reports indicating that German Air Force is short ranged and unable to strike at England. Hitler's demand for Czechoslovakia repulsed, and coalition of England, France, and Russian threaten military action. General Beck of German Army General staff engineers coup and Hitler is overthrown.
1940 - Prime Minister Chamberlain retires. Lord Halifax becomes Prime Minister. Franklin Roosevelt retires. Wendall Wilkie elected President.
1941 - Japan declares war on Netherlands in order to seize Dutch East Indies. Halifax Government does not intervene. President Wilkie makes strong diplomatic protest, and threatens to cut off oil and scrap metal.
1942 - Japan invades Philippines. U.S. Asiatic Fleet build around Heavy Cruiser U.S.S. Houston destroyed. U.S. declares war on Japan. U.S. Pacific Fleet Battleships engage Japanese Fleet off of Guam. U.S. loses Arizona and Oklahoma in exchange for the Japanese Battleships Hiei and Kirishima. Carriers battle exchanges Lexington and Yorktown for Akagi and Kaga.