Timeline/Pre-Invasion

September 1908- A metoer landed in Tunguska, Siberia and this is how the Chimera seemed to originate. The explosion devasted the surrounding area for hundreds and hundreds of miles.

August 1914- The Great War begins When British and French forces invade the German colony of Togoland.

March 1917- President Woodrow Wilson requests declaration of war against Germany but Congress refuses.

October 1917- Vladmir Lenin and his Bolshevik followers were been defeated by Tsar Mikhail and was sent to a labour camp in eastern Siberia.

October 1918- Germany requests a ceasefire and the great war ends. Germany now becomes a democratic state.

June 1919- The treaty of Versailles is signed and the great war officially ends

July 1919- The ETO ( European trade organization) is formed to encourage all European nations to work together to establish peace.

August 1921- French agents in Russia are executed without trial for allegedly encouraging insurrection.

September 1921- Russia seals its borders for unknown reasons. But blames anti imperialist propaganda from Europe and infiltration, the red curtain is formed which will one day be longer then the great wall of China.

August 1926- A slick flowing from the Volga River in Russia kills all marine life in the Sea of Azov as well as several villagers. Ukraine scientists discover quantities of radon 1,000 times normal.

October 1929- President Herbert Hoover vetos the traiff acts from crippling taxation and prevents an economic depression in America.

August 1930- Strange weather patterns from Russia cause storms and heavy rains to fall across the American plains.

September 1930- Because of the ETO Germany continues to support the Weimar Republic governement which triumphs over Adolf Hitlers Nazi party.

August 1936- Germany hosts the Olympic Games, bringing with it the largest number of partcipating countries ever. Russia does not take part.

April 1937- Several tracts of land many hundreds of square miles wide in Alaska has been classed as classified by the U.S Government.

February 1938- Sweden suffers its coldest winter and 138 people freeze to death and many Animals die.

June 1938- Ghost towns appear on the Russian border on the European side with no signs of violence. Only discoverys are of houses being boarded up and covered in folkloric demonic wards. Officials suspect biological weapons.

December 1938- The U.S Navy is spending more money securing shipping lanes across the North Atlantic leading to President Roosevelt being challenged by Senator Taft who is a staunch isolationist and as a terrible public speaker manages to inspire a young Senator by the name of Noah Grace.

May 1939- The UED spends more money on developing weapons research and creates the MDC (Military Defence Commission).

August 1940- Noah Grace calls president Roosevelt an Imperialist and a Warmonger and therefore Roosevelt loses Popularity in the polls.

January 1941- A Subterranean Army comples is being Built across the United Kingdom and as the Public specualate, the press is put into a blackout.

February 1942- Plane spotters in Latvia spot strange flying objects in the sky.

June 1944- First Nuclear weapon tested in Alaska. President Grace explains that this is a clear message, not to mess with America.

February 1947- A man who is believed to be a Russian refugee appeared at the British Embassy in Estonia with his hands completly frozen around a leather satchel which contained a skull which had six eyes and was slightly larger then a Humans. Reports also find that entire Citys in Russia have just suddenly been abandoned.

August 1948- European intelligence agencies try to listen in to Russian radio broadcasts only to hear a single message repeated over and over again in Russian across a network of 12,000 stations. The message says " Brotherhood, strength and fortitude... in the face of the angry night". A powerful signal erupts from this and causes the recievers to overheat and electrocute five men.

November 1948- President Grace is re-elected for a third straight term with Americas lowest turnout of votes ever.