1941
From Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference
[edit] Events
- Germany is at war with Great Britain. (TNG: "Manhunt")
- Philip Murray is the leader of the CIO, a powerful industrial union, in the United States of America. Time runs an article on his union in their January 27th edition. (TNG: "The Big Goodbye")
- Lord Halifax is the British Ambassador to the United States of America. On February 10th, Life magazine runs an article on him as the new ambassador to America. (TNG: "The Big Goodbye")
- The United States of America is debating whether or not to authorize funds for aid to the Great Britain in its war with Germany. (TNG: "The Big Goodbye")
- June 25 - Joe DiMaggio, a New York Yankees baseball player, plays the 37th game of his hitting streak in a match-up with the St. Louis Cardinals. His streak eventually reaches 56 games. On his 57th game, DiMaggio is defeated by two journeyman pitchers from the Cleveland Indians. (TNG: "The Big Goodbye")
- July - Adolf Hitler orders an invasion of the USSR. (TNG: "The Big Goodbye")
- The title of the newspaper headline which is read aloud by Captain Jean-Luc Picard is, "Hitler on the Move". The largest offensive action taken by Chancellor Hitler this year was the invasion of the USSR by his army.
- December 7 - Naval Air forces of the Japanese Empire attack the United States Navy base at Pearl Harbor. The event results in the entry of the United States into World War II. (TNG: "The Enemy"; DS9: "Far Beyond the Stars")
In an alternate timeline where Edith Keeler had founded a pacifist movement in the late 1930s, America did not enter the war in 1941 either as a result of Japan not attacking or that the peace movement convinced the American government to overlook the attack. As a result, America was delayed in entering World War II which allowed Nazi Germany time to develop nuclear weapons and achieve victory in the conflict.
[edit] Other
- The computer simulation of Dixon Hill is set in this year. (TNG: "The Big Goodbye")
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