Timeline of Important History (GURPS Troubleshooters)

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GURPS Troubleshooters takes place in an Alternate Earth setting (as if the actual presence of supernatural creatures wasn't a clue). Most of what we know of history remains true in 1951. Significant deviations from known history include:

  • Tesla invents radio and launches global broadcasting about 20 years earlier than known history. Tesla does not die impoverished and forgotten in 1943 but instead leaves behind a vast fortune and significant scientific legacy.
  • Dirigible airships experience a resurgence after WWII and are commonly used for luxury overseas travel, sort of an airborne cruise liner.

1894

  • Nikola Tesla secures the patent for the radio transmitter and receiver.

1897

  • Westinghouse Company begins marketing "diathermic treatments" for a variety of medical conditions.

1900

  • Count Von Zeppelin invents the dirigible airship.

1902

  • Wardenclyffe Tower is built on Long Island. The Morgan-Tesla Radio Company is formed, with Tesla as CEO and Anne Morgan leading the board of directors, and begins global radio broadcasts in March.

1904

  • The New York Subway opens its first line, an electric train running from City Hall to 145th Street.

1909

  • Tesla receives the Nobel Prize for the invention of radio.

1914

  • The Great War begins in Europe.

1917

  • Thule Society founded in Munich, Germany.
  • United States enters European war when Congress declares war on Germany in response to numerous submarine attacks.
  • Russian Revolution begins.

1918

  • World War I ends with the signing of the Armistice with Germany.

1920

  • Los Angeles Railway opens its first underground lines downtown.

1921

  • Jacques d'Arsonvale is awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the use of Tesla's diathermic radiation to treat tumors.

1922

  • Ulysses, by James Joyce, is published in Paris by Sylvia Beach.
  • In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

1923

  • The Rosewood Massacre begins on January 1 and ends six days later when the town is burned to the ground.
  • In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the first American airship, the USS Shenandoah, is launched.

1924

  • Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin dies in Russia, leaving Joseph Stalin as acting premier.

1925

  • Adolf Hitler's manifesto Mein Kampf is published in Germany.

1927

  • Trotsky is expelled from the Communist Party by Stalin and forced to flee the USSR.

1929

  • The Great Depression begins with the Wall Street crash on October 29.

1931

  • Japan invades Manchuria.

1932

  • The Soviet Famine begins and last for over a year, resulting in the deaths of millions.
  • The Kingdom of Iraq gains its independence from the British.
  • The Japanese Empire attacks Shanghai, China.
  • Paul von Hindenburg is re-elected president of Germany, defeating Hitler in a runoff election.

1933

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt is inaugurated President of the Untied States.
  • Unable to form a stable coalition government, von Hindenburg appoints Hitler Chancellor of Germany.
  • The Reichstag Fire is set on February 27 in Berlin. The Nazi-led government responds with decrees that nullify the majority of german civil liberties and established the Gestapo, a secret state police force.
  • Nazi Party becomes the official state party of Germany.
  • Albert Einstein flees germany and settles in the United States.

1934

  • The SS becomes an independent organization, reporting directly to Hitler.
  • Upon the death of von Hindenburg, Hitler becomes Head of State as well as Chancellor of Germany, and names himself Führer.

1935

  • The Nuremberg Laws are enacted in Germany.
  • Italy invades Ethiopia.

1936

  • The Great Purge begins in Soviet Union as Stalin attempts to eliminate all opposition, real or imagined, within his government.
  • Civil war begins in Spain.

1937

  • Japanese Army wins the Battle of Nanking and commences what will later become known as the Rape of Nanking.

1938

  • Germany "incorporates" Austria.
  • European nations agree to annexation of Czech Sudetenland in an attempt appease hitler.

1939

  • Physicists split a uranium atom at Columbia University.
  • Spanish Civil War ends with Nationalist victory. Spain becomes dictatorship led by Francisco Franco.
  • Germany invades Poland.

1940

  • Leon Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico City.

1941

  • US enters World War II in response to the bombing of Pearl Harbor Naval base in Hawaii.

1943

  • Nikola Tesla dies in New York.

1945

  • President Roosevelt dies suddenly in April, and Harry Truman becomes President.
  • Hitler commits suicide.
  • The war comes to a complete end with the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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