Editing City Series:Volume6c Preface (section)

==The World 1939 – 1942==

1940

*The German Army invades Europe.

*The AIF begins analysis of the Vaterland Eingeweide ley line acceleration reactors.

*March 15: At the AIF’s request, the world’s Sofort Lesers gather in the US for the Arizona Conference. There, the most skilled form the History Live Research Team and begin to research future developments.

*The AIF works with UK Special Forces to assist the withdrawal of the UK and French armies.

*May 12: The German Army begins invading the Soviet Union with Operation Barbarossa.

*May 26: The German Army drives the UK and French armies to Dunkirk on the English Channel, but the UK is allowed to escape. That prevents the planned peace talks with the UK and France using the many expected POWs, so the war continues.

*June 10: Italy joins the war. June 22: France surrenders.

*The primary members of the History Live Research Team die mysterious deaths. Investigation of the cause begins.

*The UK acquires documents about the Geheimnis Agency’s secret Babel Cannon, begin developing a Pseudo Babel Cannon.

*September 5: Construction of Germania is completed as an underground fortress city, leaving the old Berlin on the surface.

*November 13: The Geheimnis Agency completes the Requiem, a Gard-class warship equipped with a Babel Cannon. It is temporarily placed under command of the German Air Force. While placed within Germania’s #2 Air Defense Shipyard, the Requiem is also charged with defending the North Sea region.


1941

*The German Air Force receives damaged in air combat above the UK and continues to struggle to achieve air superiority.

*U-boats continue attacking merchant ships to cut off the Atlantic Line that forms the Allies’ primary supply line. This leads the US to join the war.

*The war spreads beyond Europe, dragging the Pacific Rim into the fight and beginning support of the war on a global scale.

*The AIF joins the military as an independent paratroop squad under the US Army Air Corps. They join with the Allies’ European division and begin doing scout, recon, and special operations work for missions.

*Mental Live illnesses such as Nightmare Syndrome grow rampant on a global scale. Doctors around the world conclude that anxiety about the war is destabilizing Lives around the world.

*The UK begins air raids in German territory, but the results are minimal.

*December 8: Germany asks Japan to join the war to keep the US busy and Japan complies. Japan joins the war.


1942

*January 20: At the Wannsee Conference, Germany decides to purge the world of all nonhumans and Jews.

*April 6: The History Live Research Team concludes they cannot read the history Lives past August 1943, suggesting the anxiety will rule the world that month, causing the world itself to end.

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