Saturday, February 18, 2012

History 1951-1975

1951: Germany finalizes plans on manned mission and selects date (4 January 1952).

1952: German manned mission to space proceeds as planned, new revolt begins in India using Gandhi as martyr to rally behind.

1954: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. attempts to use nonviolent methods in the growing civil rights movement, but is continually discredited as a coward and unable to back up his beliefs with facts and examples. Civil Rights Movement in USA turns violent.

1955: Germany lands first probes on the Moon. Hitler suffers a heart attack, survives but is forced to leave politics. Hitler names politician Lukas Koch as his successor. 

1956: Germany launches manned mission to the Moon, but shuttle explodes before leaving Earth's orbit. Sabotage suspected but not confirmed. USA National Guard comes close to stamping out leaders of Civil Rights Movement that support violence methods. China and Japan merge into single nation named the Empire of Japan. League of Nations reluctantly admits the Empire.

1957: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. tries again to use nonviolent methods. Followers of Dr. King slowly increase in number.

1958: Germany successfully lands a manned mission on the Moon. Astronaut Albrecht Alder is the first man to step on the Moon, and declares that he and his fellows come in peace for all of mankind. Shock resonates throughout the world. USSR begins their own space program, seeking to duplicate Germany's feat within thirty years. Dr. King's nonviolent movement increases in size, though they are still outnumbered by the multitude of violent activists.

1959: USSR launches their first satellite, Sputnik 1, into Earth's orbit. Former Fuhrer Hitler passes away after a second heart attack. Biologists Robert Briggs and Thomas J. King successfully clone northern leopard frogs.

1960: Germany launches second successful manned mission to the Moon and begin plans for permanent station on the Moon. USSR launches their first manned space mission. USA begins their own space program. Nonviolent civil rights movement led by Dr. King slowly begins to match numbers of violent protest groups.

1961: The USA National Guard finally quells the last leader of the violent protest movement, unintentionally paving the way for Dr. King's peaceful nonviolent movement. The USA government, after being forced to quell violent protests bordering on outright revolt for more than half a decade decides to let Dr. King continue so long as he remains nonviolent.


1962: The Empire of Japan begins their space program. NASA sends the first American satellite into space. Germany begins construction of Kuppel, the first extraterrestrial colony, on the Moon. USSR lands an unmanned spacecraft on the Moon.


1963: Empire of Japan launches a satellite that crashes in the Pacific Ocean four months after launch due to poorly planned orbital deployment. Dr. King leads a peaceful march on Washington D.C.


1964: NASA successfully sends an American into space and brings him back alive. USSR accomplishes five unmanned mission to the Moon in preparation for manned mission. Group of history major students in Berlin begin a medieval recreation group that is dubbed the Feudal Society.

1969: NASA lands a manned shuttle on the Moon.


1972: Kuppel is completed, atmosphere is transported from Earth, water, hydroponics, and colonists soon follow; Germany is still legally in control of Kuppel, though a self-sustaining localized government is put into place.


1973: Empire of Japan successfully sends a manned shuttle into space, shocking the world at moving directly to manned missions after failing to even get a satellite into a stable orbit. Germany begins plans for missions to Mars, launching from Kuppel. Dr. King is assassinated, USA fears reactions identical to Gandhi's assassination. USSR sends manned shuttle aimed for the Moon into space, atmospheric exit trajectory poorly planned, shuttle explodes before leaving the stratosphere.


1974: USA feels relief when Dr. King's movement continues nonviolently after his death, USA government passes bills aimed at equality into law. Unmanned drone begins flight to Mars from Kuppel.


1975: USSR successfully lands a man on the Moon, begins plans for own colony on the Moon. Unmanned drone reaches Mars orbit.

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