1940s

#### 2nd

* In Los Angeles, California, Howard Stark demonstrates the properties of Vibranium, a metal found by Stark Industries in Africa.

#### September

##### 10th

* The Pevensie siblings journey to Narnia, meet the people and Aslan, defeat the White Witch, and rule Narnia for 15 years.
* The children return to the moment they left, still retaining their memories of their lives in Narnia.

### November

#### 11th

* At Castle Kaufmann in the Bavarian Alps, Abraham Erskine injects Johann Schmidt with his Super Soldier Serum, but the serum horrifically transforms Schmidt, turning him into the Red Skull.

#### 27th

* Lee Jun-fan, Chinese 李振藩, later known as Bruce Lee, is born.

### October

#### 31th

* *Dumbo* is released in the United States of America.

### December

#### 7th

* The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor prompts United States of America to enter World War II.
* President of the United States of America, Franklin D. Roosevelt declares that the United States will build fifty thousand planes to fight the armies of Hirohito and Adolf Hitler.

#### 9th

* Stark Industries begin producing planes for the war effort following the Attack on Pearl Harbor.

#### 11th

* Howard Stark's innovations earn him a spot working on the Manhattan Project.

#### 24th

* Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes visit US Recruiting and Induction Center in New York City, but Rogers is classified as 4F and rejected from service. He goes on to be rejected a further four times in four different cities.

#### 26th

* At Camp Lehigh, New Jersey, Abraham Erskine rejects the candidates selected by Chester Phillips for Project Rebirth.

## 1942

### March

#### 9th

* **Destruction of Castle Rock Tower**: In Tønsberg, Norway, Johann Schmidt discovers and takes the Tesseract, hidden within a monastery. He refers to it as "the jewel of Odin's Treasure Room".

#### 10th

* Upon hearing that the Tesseract was stolen by HYDRA, the Justice Society of America is formed. Its members include: Dr. Mid-Nite, Stargirl, Todd Rice/Obsidian, Rex Tyler/Hourman, Henry Heywood/Commander Steel, and Amaya Jiwe/Vixen.

### May

#### 5th

* Franklin D. Roosevelt warns Japan that if they use chemical weapons, the U.S. would respond in kind.

#### 26th

* HYDRA General Werner Reinhardt is sent to search for other mysterious artifacts. Reinhardt's team is able to discover the corpse of a blue-skinned extraterrestrial in the deserts of North Africa.

## 1943

### June

#### 14th

* On Flag Day, at the World Exposition of Tomorrow in New York City, Abraham Erskine spots Steve Rogers at a recruitment office and offers him a chance to join the United States Army through Project Rebirth.

#### 15th

* At Camp Lehigh, New Jersey, Rogers and several other volunteers begin their training under the supervision of Erskine, Peggy Carter, and Colonel Chester Phillips.

#### 22nd

* **Assassination of Abraham Erskine**: With Erskine's serum and Howard Stark's Vita Radiation technology, Steve Rogers is transformed into the world's first super soldier. Erskine is assassinated by Heinz Kruger, an operative of HYDRA. The only hope of replicating Project Rebirth's success is in Rogers' genetic code. Kruger runs away but is caught by Rogers and commits suicide with a cyanide pill.

#### 23rd

* **Captain America's USO Show**: Unwilling to be kept for research, Steve Rogers joins the USO and goes on a morale-boosting tour of the US, the UK, and troops stationed in Italy. Given the name 'Captain America' he becomes a national celebrity, appearing in films, comic books and card collections and establishing himself as a symbol of America's participation in the war.

### November

#### 3rd

* **Liberation of Allied Prisoners of War**: Frustrated by his lack of real action, and learning that Bucky Barnes is trapped behind enemy lines, Steve Rogers attacks a HYDRA facility in Austria. Rogers releases Dum Dum Dugan, Gabe Jones, Jim Morita, James Montgomery Falsworth, Jacques Dernier, Bucky, and the rest of the 107th. Johann Schmidt sets the facility to self destruct and escapes with the Tesseract. During his escape Rogers memorizes a map of HYDRA facility locations and obtains a sample of the power source HYDRA was using.

#### 4th

* Steve Rogers is presumed dead, but soon arrives with most of the soldiers he saved from the HYDRA facility. Rogers brings together some of the men he saved in the HYDRA base and creates a team that will eventually be known as the Howling Commandos.

## 1944

### January

* A battalion of troops have been pinned down by HYDRA troops due to a blizzard just outside Stalingrad. They are eventually rescued by the Howling Commandos led by Steve Rogers. Over one thousand men including a man who would become Peggy Carter's future husband are saved.

* Werner Reinhardt captures a group of villagers from China who have found the mysterious Obelisk in Chaves, Portugal. Based on stories and fables from the villagers, Reinhardt comes to learn of the Kree's visit to Earth millennia ago, but misinterprets their visit as an attempt to conquer the planet. When he shows the Obelisk to Schmidt, he says that the Obelisk may hold the answer to death itself.

### February

#### 1st

* **Capture of Arnim Zola**: The Howling Commandos board a HYDRA train and capture Arnim Zola. In the ensuing battle with HYDRA agents, Bucky Barnes falls from the train and is presumed dead.

#### 4th

* Red Skull promises to his HYDRA army that his plan to launch the Valkyrie against the United States of America will end in victory.
* Rogers, mourning the death of Bucky Barnes in the ruins of Whip & Fiddle, vows to defeat HYDRA and Red Skull.

#### 5th

* **Attack on HYDRA Headquarters**: Captain America attacks the HYDRA Headquarters, and is taken before Red Skull. Chester Phillips leads an attack on the main gate. Red Skull retreats to the hangar and Rogers follows.

* **Battle in the Valkyrie**: As Red Skull escapes in the *Valkyrie*, Captain America gains access to the plane and a fight ensues. Red Skull handles the Tesseract, which activates and sends him through a portal to the planet Vormir. There, he is stranded for over 70 years and tasked with guarding the Soul Stone until 2018. Rogers crashes the Valkyrie off the coast of Greenland so its bombs never reach America's shores.
* In a HYDRA Fortress in Austria, Werner Reinhardt tests the Obelisk's power on several of the Chinese villagers, one of which is a young woman named Jiaying who carries the genetic material of the Inhumans and thus displays an unnatural immunity to its potent effects. Reinhardt learns about Schmidt's demise and the approach of the Allies. He decides to move the Obelisk to a more secure location.

### March

#### 2nd

* **Attack on HYDRA Research Facility Number 4**: Werner Reinhardt attempts to evacuate the HYDRA Research Facility in Austria and escape with numerous mysterious artifacts that HYDRA collected over the years. His base is attacked by the SSR troops led by Peggy Carter, Dum Dum Dugan, and Jim Morita. Reinhardt and his men are arrested and all the artifacts are confiscated by the SSR.

### April

#### 30th

* In his bunker in Berlin, Adolf Hitler appoints Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, the Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy, as his successor. Hitler commits a suicide in order to evade capture after Nazi Germany's defeat. Nazi propaganda attempts to present his death as a heroic fall in the struggle against Bolshevism.

### May

#### 8th

* The Allied nations celebrate the Victory in Europe Day. The Howling Commandos reunite to commemorate the sacrifice of Captain America.

#### 9th

* German Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel signs the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at Soviet headquarters in Berlin.

#### 19th

* The United States begin Operation Overcast, later renamed Operation Paperclip, an effort to recruit former Nazi scientists to work for the United States.

#### 21st

* Werner Reinhardt is taken to a secret Strategic Scientific Reserve facility and interrogated by Peggy Carter. He attempts to offer his services to the SSR, even relaying information regarding the Obelisk and the Kree, but is instead sentenced to life imprisonment.

#### 6th

* An Atomic Bomb is dropped over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

#### 9th

* An Atomic Bomb is dropped over the Japanese city of Nagasaki.

#### 15th

* Japan agrees to surrender following the dropping of two atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

#### 2nd

* The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed, formally marking the end of World War II.

## 1949

### June

#### 8th

* *Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel* by George Orwell is published, containing the quote, "The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world."

### August

#### 13th

* Arnim Zola is released from prison and is recruited to form part of the upcoming S.H.I.E.L.D. as part of Operation Paperclip.

### December

* Howard Stark recommences the plans to start S.H.I.E.L.D., this time with the help of Chester Phillips. Peggy Carter ends her work at the Strategic Scientific Reserve, and becomes one of the founders. The agency would officially start in the 50s.
* The Playground begins construction for the Strategic Scientific Reserve's transition into the SSR research division of S.H.I.E.L.D.