Timeline
1789
- Inauguration ceremony for President Washington takes place at Federal Hall.
1939
- Scientist Albert Einstein sends letter to US President Roosevelt proposing the development of an atomic bomb.
- Outbreak of World War II.
1941
- UK founds SAS (Special Air Service Regiment).
1944
- Cobra Unit participates in allied invasion of Normandy.
1945
- World's first atomic bomb is detonated in Alamogordo, New Mexico, USA.
- Atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
- Father of Otacon (Hal Emmerich) is born.
1946
- World's first computer, ENIAC, is completed.
1947
- CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) is founded in America.
- Cobra Unit is disbanded.
1949
- NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) established.
- Soviet Union tests atomic bomb at Semipalatinsk.
- Germany splits into East and West.
1950
- US President Truman orders production of slew of nuclear warheads.
- The Boss encounters Naked Snake and trains him in combat, demolition, and intel gathering techniques.
- Outbreak of Korean War.
1951
- MOSSAD (Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations) is founded in Israel.
- Nuclear test takes place in Nevada desert. US Army troops participate. The Boss is exposed to large amounts of radiation.
1952
- Wernher von Braun outlines a plan to send humans to Mars.
- NSA (National Security Agency) is founded in America.
1953
- Nikita Khrushchev becomes First Secretary of Soviet Communist Party.
- Watson and Crick discover the double-helix structure of DNA.
1954
- US Navy launches world's first nuclear submarine, USS Nautilus.
- Hydrogen bomb tested on Bikini Atoll. Naked Snake, Godzilla, and the crew of Japanese fishing boat, Daigo Fukuryu Maru, are exposed to radiation.
- Secretary of State Dulles announces the New Look Policy (massive retaliation strategy) in America.
- KGB (Soviet Union Committee for State Security) is founded.
1955
- Albert Einstein dies, pleading for end to nuclear weapons.
- World Conference against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs holds its first session in Japan.
1957
- US successfully tests first ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile).
- Soviet Union successfully launches Sputnik 1.
1958
- US successfully launches Explorer 1 satellite.
1959
- Cuban Revolution begins.
- NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is born from NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics).
1960
- American U2 spy plane violates Soviet airspace.
- Soviet Premier Khrushchev announces missile aid to Cuba.
- Two NSA codebreakers, ADAM and EVA, defect to Soviet Union.
1961
- International negotiations between US and Cuba cease.
- President Kennedy earns disapproval of the Philosophers.
- Gagarin travels aboard Vostok 1 in world's first manned space flight.
- Alan Shepard becomes first American to experience rocket flight.
- Construction begins on Berlin Wall.
- Green Berets (US 5th Special Forces Group) created.
- Soviet Union tests atomic bomb in Arctic Circle.
1963
- Marking the end of a 114 day strike, the New York Times publishes 702 page Sunday edition.
- Valentino Tereshikova travels aboard Soviet Vostok 6, becoming the first female cosmonaut.
- Soviet and American leaders sign the Hot Line Agreement.
- Soviet Union, US, and UK sign the Partial Test Ban Treaty.
- US President Kennedy is assassinated.
1965
- US drops bombs on North Vietnam.
- Sigint joins ARPA.
1966
- US Department of Transportation establishes the EMT emergency medical technician response system.
1968
- Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia.
- SALT-1 (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) initiated.
- EVA disappears in Hanoi.
1969
- US Apollo program puts first man on moon.
- US Department of Defense and ARPA establish ARPAnet, the basis for the Internet.
1973
- US launches Skylab space station.
- US ground troops withdrawn from Vietnam.
1975
- Richard Dawkins publishes The Selfish Gene.
1977
- US Delta Force (1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta) established.
1981
- US launches Columbia, the world's first space shuttle.
1983
- US President Reagan announces the SDI.
1985
- Gorbachev's new administration brings Soviet Union into post-cold war era.
1986
- Space shuttle program stalls due to Challenger explosion.
- Soviet space station, Mir, is launched.
- Human Genome Project proposed. Worldwide gene research commences.
- Soviet nuclear power plant disaster in Chernobyl.
1990
- Iraq invades Kuwait.
- East and West Germany are reunited.
1991
- Gulf War commences.
- Soviet Union collapses, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) rises in its place.
1996
- United Nations adopt Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
2000
- Joint team of Japanese, American, and European scientists announce the successful mapping of the human genome.
2001
- Multiple terrorist attacks strike the US on September 11.
2003
- Multilateral military strike launched upon Iraq.
2011
- Raiden rescues Sunny, who is then left to Snake and Otacon. (MGS4)
- Worldwide demand for PMC (Private Military Company) troops increases, disputes intensify. SOP System adopted. (MGS4)
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