The 1940s
1945
August 6, 1945 - Californian senator Hiram Johnson (R-CA) dies. On the evening of his death, Walt Disney announces his intention to run for the senate.
August 26, 1945 - Walt Disney is elected into the senate of the United States.
September 2, 1945: World War II comes to a close with the surrender of Imperial Japan to the United States aboard the USS Missouri.
The Vietminh-led government of Ho Chi Minh declares independance in Hanoi after the resignation of Emperor Bao Dai. The French declare that they will not recognize the new regime.
September 21, 1945: Indochina is divided into Franco-British and Nationalist Chinese occupation zones. The Vietminh resist, but garner no sympathy from the United States.
October 1, 1945: FIFA President Jules Rimet makes the decision to hold a World Cup in 1949, rather than in 1946, due to the second world war.
October 24, 1945: The United Nations officially comes into being with the ratification of the Charter of the United Nations by the six permanent members of the United Nations Security Council--United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, China, and the Soviet Union and by a majority of 45 other signatories.
December 2, 1945: General Patton goes on an uneventful drive.
1946
January 14, 1946 - Senator Walt Disney (R-CA) filibusters a debate about the Fair Employment Practices Act of 1946. He speaks for almost 12 Hours. He justifies his rejection of the act with the "terrible interference into the freedom of Americans." Although he is heavily criticized by the left, he is praised by the conservative senate members. Disney's reputation in the senate starts to grow.
January 17, 1946: The United States Congress passes the 'Fair Employment Practices Act of 1946', banning workplace discrimination in government hiring and agencies, abolishing the poll tax across the Southern United States, and making lynching a federal crime.
January 27, 1946: A rainstorm causes the flash flooding of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The city will never recover.
February 1, 1946: Former Allied Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower is chosen as the first Secretary-General of the United Nations, much to the chagrin of the Soviet Union.
February 2, 1946: Finnish Prime Minister J.K. Paasikivi seriously injured in a private accident, declared unfit to hold his position. Minister of the Interior Yrjö Leino, a Communist, becomes the new Acting Premier.
February 10, 1946: Fearing a coup from the left, President Mannerheim appoints a new government led by Urho Kekkonen (Agrarian Party). The Communists attempt a general strike but are rebuffed by the moderate left.
May 2, 1946: State Department Analyst George Kennan is killed when his car crashes into the Potomac.
May 26, 1946: During the elections in Czechoslovakia, the Communists manage to gain a slide victory in the Czech parts of the country (41%), while in Slovakia the Democratic Party won (24%). Edvard Beneš, leader of the National Socialists, becomes president and the Communist leader Klement Gottwald becomes premier.
August 1, 1946: The McMahon Act is signed into law by President Harry Truman. The act, which places the U.S.' nuclear arsenal under civilian, rather than military, control and forbids sharing of nuclear technology with nations other than those who collaborated with the United States on the Manhattan Project, is seen as a great step forward in all countries involved.
October 1st, 1946: Following the announcement of the 1949 World Cup, the United States forms the National Soccer League, or the NSL, comprising of 14 soccer teams hailing from cities around the states. A concise list follows:
1. New York Yanks
2. Roanoke Industry
3. Detroit Autos
4. St. Louis Atomics
5. Houston Fighters
6. Honolulu Sailors
7. Los Angeles Angels
8. Boston Union
9. Portland Pirates
10. Kansas City Cherokee
11. Denver Peaks
12. Chicago Mafia
13. Atlantic Crusaders (Atlantic City)
14. Minneapolis Gunners
October 5, 1946: Stalin while on inspection of Zhukov's army is killed when the driver loses control of the car. Stalin hits his head on the seat in front of him killing him
October 6th, 1946: The New Jersey Mafia is founded by refugees from Pittsburgh. It is commanded from Atlantic City.
November 4th, 1946: Frank Herbert is killed in an automobile accident in Seattle, Washington.
November 6, 1946: Democrats hold on to both the House and the Senate by the barest of margins in the midterm Congressional election. This is largely seen as a result of the weak economy and unease about the growing threat posed by the Soviet Union.
1947
April 15, 1947: Mannerheim resigns due to ill health. Finnish Parliament elects the Social Democrat K.A. Fagerholm new President. In the vote, Fagerholm defeats Kekkonen only by a two-vote margin.
June 2, 1947: The OSS becomes the Intelligence Agency of the United States, overseeing the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Department of Signal Analysis (DSA).
June 27, 1947: Reverend Lester Carlson, pastor of a La Grande, Oregon, publishes False Angels, portraying alien invaders who come under the guise of "beneficent donors"....
July 4, 1947 - Some high-ranked persons of the Republican Party meet in Walt Disney's house to celebrate Independence Day. This is the official reason. Unofficially, Senator Walt Disney (R-CA), Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-WI), Senator Robert Taft (R-OH) and Representative Richard Nixon (R-CA) found the "Patriots". Their goal is to ensure that America stays free from communist subversion, whereever they are in America. They soon fledge contacts to J.Edgar Hoover, to provide them with information on communists. They also plan to run a candidate for the presidency, but not in 1948, but in 1952.
July 5, 1947: Louis E. Starr of Portland, Oregon, a veteran of both World Wars, publishes The Forever War, describing a massive interstellar war...
July 18, 1947: Director Orson Welles announces in Hollywood, California, that his next film project Broken Saucers will incorporate his theories on science fiction....
October 1947: As part of the ongoing guerilla war, the French launch Operaion Lea against remote Vietminh strongholds near Laos. The Operation is a stunning success-General Vo Nguyen Gap is killed, and Ho Chi Minh is captured along with a large part of his army.
October 23, 1947: The German author and playwriter Berthold Brecht, famous for his play "Life of Galileo" and currently living in-exile in the USA, secretly bords a ship towards Europe to escape the grip of HUAC, which suspects him of being pro-Communist.
November 7, 1947: Berthold Brecht arrives in Rotterdam, his first exile in post-war Europe. However, he plans to move towards a country with a more fitting political direction soon.
1948
January 5, 1948: Gene Roddenberry, a commercial pilot for Pan American World Airways manages to save a commercial airliner from a horrific crash in Seattle, Washington due to his military piloting skills. No one is injured, and as a result of his piloting, he will give up his writing career and will continue piloting until 1959, when he leaves Pan-Am to become an aeronautical engineer.
January 11, 1948: The Organization for the Defense Against Communist Activities (ODACA) is formed, secretly funded by the Patriot group. Notable members of ODACA are George Lincoln Rockwell and J.B. Stoner.
February 7, 1948: The Allied Control Commission leaves Finland.
February 11, 1948: Andrei Sakharov is arrested by the KGB for suspected anti-Communist activities.
February 19, 1948: A group of Patriot supporters stage a protest in front of the United Nations Building against the increasing amount of powers the United Nations holds.
February 21, 1948: Ten Czechoslovak ministers tried to resigned, after the Minister of the Interior Nosek denied the reinstation of eight non-Communist police officers, even though the cabinet was intending to approve this. However president Beneš refused this.
February 24, 1948: Klement Gottwald, leader of the CPC, states that the current non-Communist members of the cabinet are incapable of running the country and demands from Beneš the full control over the government.
February 26, 1948: Edvard Beneš refuses Gottwald's demands and declares that he is willing to use force if the Communists attempt a coup d'etat.
March 13, 1948: C.G.E. Mannerheim, severely ill, dies in Helsinki. The solemn state funeral three days later leads to rioting as Communists attack right-wing mourners. The army and police crack down on rioters.
March 21, 1948: Another Patriot protest is held in front of Eisenhower's personal house.
April, 1948 - March, 1949: Multiple protests continue against Eisenhower and the UN, all sponsored by the Patriot group.
May 21, 1948: Vietnam is formally unified under French control.
May 23, 1948: President Fagerholm announces that Finland will join the Marshall Plan. A political crisis with the Soviet Union ensues, leading to the USSR demanding "political guarantees" from Finland.
September 17, 1948: Robert Kennedy founds the Patriotic University Societies of America, with its HQ at his own Harvard University. Kennedy would later become the POTUS to absorb the GOP into the Patriot movement.
October 3, 1948: The United Kingdom tests it's first atomic bomb off of the coast of Australia.
November 2, 1948: Despite a strong showing for Strom Thurmond in the South, ostensibly a result of the passage of the Fair Employment Practices Act, Harry Truman is re-elected as President of the United States over Tom Dewey, though he is unable to secure a majority of the popular vote, winning only a plurality of 48%. Democrats increase their majorities in both houses of Congress.
November 11, 1948: The Presley family moves to Atlantic City, New Jersey, and young Elvis is inducted as a junior member of the NJM.
November 27, 1948: The Agreement of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance signed by Finnish and Soviet delegates.
1949
January 7, 1949: The New Jersey Mafia proclaims themselves enemies of the Patriots.
January 10, 1949: The Huaihai Campaign (part of the ongoing Chinese Civil War) comes to a close with a Pyrrhic victory for Nationalist forces in Northern China. Although they have been successful in securing the region and beating back the Communists, they have lost hundreds of thousands of troops in the process.
January 20, 1949: Harry Truman is inaugurated for his second term as President of the United States. His inaugural speech calls for increased aid to the Nationalist forces fighting against Chinese Communist forces and for universal health care in the United States.
March 23, 1949: Though guerilla activity is still widespread, the State of Vietnam is formally granted independance within the French Union.
April 1, 1949: UN SecGen Eisenhower is killed by an unknown assassin. The FBI attempts to link it to communists but the evidence produced is inconclusive.
April 3, 1949: Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill is voted in as the new Secretary General of the UN.
April 17, 1949: Andrei Sakharov dies in the gulag, where he has been residing for a little over a year now.
June 14 - July 14, 1949: The 1949 FIFA World Cup is held in Brazil, with Spain taking the cup, and Brazil and Uruguay coming in 2nd, and 3rd respectively.
July 2, 1949: Canada tests it's first atomic bomb at an undisclosed location in Alberta.
July 10, 1949: Robert Taft is killed by a bomb in a suspected anarchist plot.
July 11, 1949 - After the assasination of Robert Taft, Republican members of the senate pressure for a "Patriot Act", which gives the federal government full rights to crack down on "subversive and unamerican elements". This is also the first time, that the word "Patriot" enters the political landscape. President Truman however, rejects these plans, as these would make America a police state.
July 30, 1949: President Truman signs into law the Social Security Act of 1949, creating the United States' universal health insurance program, Medicare.
November 2, 1949: KMT troops begin a seige of the Communist-controlled city of Shijiazhuang. Currently it seems the city will surrender to the Nationalists in less than three-and-a-half months.
November 14, 1949 - Following McCarthy's heart attack and "retirement" from politics, as well as Taft's death from a bomb assasination, the Patriots need new members they can trust and who have contacts all over the United States. They start linking ties to McCarthy's friend, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. Also, Henry Ford II expresses interest in joining this political union, after a long conversation with Walt Disney.
August 29, 1949: The Soviet Union tests it's fist atomic bomb.
October 1, 1949: The People's Republic of China is established, with Mao Zedong as it's Chairman, and Zhou Enlai as Premier.
October 25, 1949: Although the People's Republic of China claims the whole of mainland China, it in reality only has control over segments of Northern China and Manchuria. The Nationalist government, aided by the United States, begins what will be known as the 'Autumn Offensive', a plan devised to crush Communist forces in the North before rooting out Communist control in Manchuria.
October 29, 1949: George Lucas' family moves to Seattle after his father's store goes out of business. He will continue his early passion for racing cars in his new home.
November 9, 1949: Patriots Co-Founder Joseph McCarthy suffers a heartattack. It doesn't kill him, but it vastly changes his beliefs - he retires from public politics.
December 26, 1949: Joseph Kennedy, Sr. is killed by a member of the NJM.
December 27, 1949 - One day after Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. was assasinated, the American Civil Security Company (ACSC) is founded. On the surface, this looks like a normal security company, but in reality it serves as a security force for the Patriots. Their tasks are to guard the patriot members, and to dispose their enemies on their own.
December 31, 1949: Thomas Dewey retires as governor of New York, in order to go for a senate bid.
1950s
1950
January 7, 1950: "Archie" Roosevelt wins governorship of New York.
January 8, 1950: "Archie" Roosevelt is inducted into the Patriots group.
1951
June 10, 1951: Australia tests it's first atomic bomb, independent of British co-operation.
(Items in bold are items that I've added to the list)
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