Original: 1948 & ndash ; In France , Robert Schuman becomes President of the Council while being Foreign minister , As such , he is the negotiator of the major treaties of the end of World War II .
Simplified: 1949 - A former sharpshooter in World War II , Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden , New Jersey with a souvenir Luger to become Americas first single-episode mass murderer .