1940s

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This is a timeline of events that occurred during the 1940s.

2nd

 * In Los Angeles, California, Howard Stark demonstrates the properties of Vibranium, a metal found by Stark Industries in Africa. Stark is attacked by HYDRA assassins, and then accepts Colonel Chester Phillips' proposal to join the Strategic Scientific Reserve.

11th

 * At Castle Kaufmann in the Bavarian Alps, Abraham Erskine injects Johann Schmidt with his Super Soldier Serum, but the serum horrifically transforms Schmidt, turning him into the Red Skull.

13th

 * Abraham Erskine is rescued by Peggy Carter, who had infiltrated the compound disguised as a maid. Carter takes Erskine to the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR) to produce America's Super Soldier with the aid of Howard Stark.

25th

 * Steve Rogers attends a baseball game at in New York City.

5th

 * Sarah Rogers dies of . The news is soon heard by her son Steve Rogers.

7th

 * Sarah Rogers's funeral takes place, and she is buried next to her husband, Joseph.
 * Steve Rogers, who now lost both his parents heads home and is found by Bucky Barnes, who offers to let Steve live with him, but Steve refuses and says he can get by on his own. Barnes tells Rogers that he does not have to get by on his own, and that he will be with him "till the end of the line".

7th

 * The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor prompts America to enter World War II. In Times Square, New York City, during an art class, Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes learn of America joining the war, and over the next two weeks Bucky trains Rogers at Goldie's Boxing Gym.

9th

 * Stark Industries begin producing planes for the war effort following the.

11th

 * Howard Stark's innovations earn him a spot working on the Manhattan Project.

24th

 * Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes visit US Recruiting and Induction Center in New York City, but Rogers is classified as 4F and rejected from service. He goes on to be rejected a further four times in four different cities.

25th

 * The Strategic Scientific Reserve team in New York City, finish the Project Rebirth Chamber. Howard Stark comments that it should be called the Brooklyn Project in response to 's work at Los Alamos.

26th

 * At Camp Lehigh, New Jersey, Abraham Erskine rejects the candidates selected by Chester Phillips for Project Rebirth.

5th

 * Peggy Carter spends a full week in the sewers of New York City, managing to learn about their layout and operation.

3rd

 * In Tønsberg, Norway, Johann Schmidt discovers and takes the Tesseract, hidden within a monastery. He refers to it as "the jewel of Odin's Treasure Room".

22nd

 * Mexico declares war on the Axis powers.

5th

 * Franklin D. Roosevelt warns Japan that if they used chemical weapons, the U.S. would respond in kind.

6th

 * Japan the Alaskan island of Kiska.

7th

 * Japan captures the Alaskan island of Attu.

10th

 * The SS burns down the Czech village of in response to the assassination of Obergruppenführer.

19th-24th

 * Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill conduct a series of meetings, and agree to proceed with.

20th

 * Fort Lenin surrenders to the Wehrmacht during the.

1st-27th

 * The takes place, ending in a stalemate as the British halted the Axis advance.

8th

 * United States Marines secure the airfield at Lunga Point during the.

22nd

 * Brazil declares war on the Axis powers.

After the discovery of the Tesseract

 * HYDRA General Werner Reinhardt is sent to search for other mysterious artifacts. Reinhardt's team is able to discover the corpse of a blue-skinned extraterrestrial in the deserts of North Africa.

4th

 * In Argentina, a removed Ramón Castillo from power.

11th

 * At an army camp for the Soviet Armed Forces, Johann Fennhoff is interrupted by a surgeon needing his assistance during an amputation of the leg of a soldier called Ovechkin. To help the soldier, Fennhoff uses his hypnosis-technique on him. As Ovechkin is completely focused on a memory of a chess game he had with his mother before enlisting in the army, the surgeons amputate his leg without him feeling any pain.

14th

 * On, at the World Exposition of Tomorrow in New York City, Abraham Erskine spots Steve Rogers at a recruitment office and offers him a chance to join the United States Army through Project Rebirth.

15th

 * At Camp Lehigh, New Jersey, Rogers and several other volunteers begin their training under the supervision of Erskine, Peggy Carter, and Colonel Chester Phillips.

22nd

 * Assassination of Abraham Erskine: With Erskine's serum and Howard Stark's Vita Radiation technology, Steve Rogers is transformed into the world's first super soldier. Erskine is assassinated by Heinz Kruger, an operative of HYDRA. The only hope of replicating Project Rebirth's success is in Rogers' genetic code. Kruger runs away but is caught by Rogers and commits suicide with a cyanide pill.

23rd

 * Unwilling to be kept for research, Steve Rogers joins the USO and goes on a morale-boosting tour of the US, the UK, and troops stationed in Italy. Given the name 'Captain America' he becomes a national celebrity, appearing in films, comic books and card collections and establishing himself as a symbol of America's participation in the war.
 * The Western Allies' sees massive successes as Nazi satellite state targets are obliterated.

September

 * U-boats torpedo a ship off the Virginia coast.
 * After a massively successful and, the Western Allies land on continental Italy.
 * U.S. bombers hit Italian warships thirty-five times.
 * An RAF raid destroys several vital German dams.
 * Wreckage of a U-boat is discovered on the U.S. East Coast by locals.
 * Another wave of bombers targeting Nazi satellite states destroy their objectives.

October

 * Battle of Azzano: The 107th Infantry Regiment suffers heavy casualties fighting against the Germany Army and HYDRA. HYDRA openly fires at German troops, breaking ties with Nazi Germany.
 * At the HYDRA Weapons Facility in the Austrian Alps, a group of soldiers meet for the first time. As prisoners they are used to make weapons for HYDRA. They team up, at first, to get revenge on one of their captors who had viciously beat up Bucky Barnes.

3rd

 * Liberation of Allied Prisoners of War: Frustrated by his lack of real action, and learning that Bucky Barnes is trapped behind enemy lines, Steve Rogers attacks a HYDRA facility in Austria and releases Dum Dum Dugan, Gabe Jones, Jim Morita, James Montgomery Falsworth, Jacques Dernier, Bucky, and the rest of the 107th. Johann Schmidt sets the facility to self destruct and escapes with the Tesseract. During his escape Rogers memorizes a map of HYDRA facility locations and obtained a sample of the power source HYDRA was using.

4th

 * Steve Rogers is presumed dead, but soon arrives with most of the soldiers he saved from the HYDRA facility.
 * Rogers brings together some of the men he saved in the HYDRA base and creates a team that will eventually be known as the Howling Commandos.

5th

 * Howard Stark examines a sample of HYDRA's power, which will help him with the theory of a new element.

December

 * Captain America and his Howling Commandos invade and destroy a HYDRA facility in France.

January

 * Captain America and his Howling Commandos invade and destroy a HYDRA facility in Belgium.

February

 * Captain America and his Howling Commandos invade and destroy a HYDRA facility in Czechoslovakia.

29th

 * Captain America tries to get a file from HYDRA agents in London, who run away and attempt to hide in an air raid shelter. The Captain encourages the citizens inside the shelter to attack the agents by giving them a speech of heroism and strength in numbers.

27th

 * Captain America invades a castle in the Nazi occupied Danish Straits controlled by HYDRA. He fights a Nazi wearing an arc reactor powered battle suit, and an arc powered tank. Johann Schmidt attempts to destroy him by using a Viking Runestone, but the Captain slows the relic from exploding, allowing the Howling Commandos to escape.

11th

 * Captain America boards and captures the HYDRA submarine Leviathan.

Unspecified Date

 * Battle of Finow: General John McGinnis' soldiers raid the laboratories of Howard Stark, stealing all documents about his research and the Midnight Oil, a defensive gas created by Stark. Wanting to help the Soviet Armed Forces in crushing the German defenses in the city of Finow in Germany, Air Force planes fly over the battlefield and release the Midnight Oil. However, the gas has a different effect on the Soviets than they were expecting. Hundreds of soldiers went mad and began killing everyone around them. One of the only few soldiers to survive is Johann Fennhoff, who survived by putting a gas mask on his face. His brother, however, was not as lucky, having been killed like the rest of his comrades.

6th

 * : The Allied forces launch the invasion of German-occupied western Europe, landing in Normandy, France.

September

 * Johann Fennhoff is captured by Leviathan, along with three other men. When one of them refuses to join because he wants to be with his family, he is stabbed in the jugular vein by Dottie Underwood, who is now a member of Leviathan. The remaining three are told that his family will be killed and that they will all be together. Fennhoff chooses to remain alive by joining Leviathan.

Capture of Arnim Zola

 * Kidnapping of Arnim Zola: The Howling Commandos board a HYDRA train and capture Arnim Zola. In the ensuing battle with HYDRA agents, Bucky Barnes falls from the train and is presumed dead.

HYDRA's Discovery of the Obelisk

 * Werner Reinhardt captures a group of villagers from China who have found the mysterious Obelisk in Chaves, Portugal. Based on stories and fables from the villagers, Reinhardt comes to learn of the Kree's visit to Earth millennia ago, but misinterprets their visit as an attempt to conquer the planet. When he shows the Obelisk to Schmidt, he says that the Obelisk may hold the answer to death itself.

19th

 * The United States Armed Forces begin the invasion of Iwo Jima.

4th

 * Attack on HYDRA Headquarters: Captain America attacks the HYDRA Headquarters alone on his motorcycle which he uses to blow up the doors to the base. He has a quick fight before being surrounded and captured by HYDRA forces. He is taken before Red Skull but before he is killed the Howling Commandos zip-line through the window and Colonel Chester Phillips attacks the main gate. Red Skull retreats to the hanger and Rogers follows.
 * Battle in the Valkyrie: As the Red Skull escapes in the Valkyrie, Captain America gains access to the plane and a fight ensues. Red Skull handles the Tesseract, which activates and sends him through a portal. The Captain crashes the Valkyrie off the coast of Greenland so its bombs never reach the USA.

5th

 * The disappearance of Steve Rogers is publicly revealed.

6th

 * In a HYDRA Fortress in Austria, Werner Reinhardt tests the Obelisk's power on several of the Chinese villagers, one of which is a young woman named Jiaying who carries the genetic material of the Inhumans and thus displays an unnatural immunity to its potent effects. Reinhardt learns about Schmidt's demise and the approach of the Allies. He decides to move the Obelisk to a more secure location.

12th

 * Franklin D. Roosevelt dies. Harry S. Truman becomes the next President of the United States.

30th

 * In his bunker in Berlin, Adolf Hitler appoints, the Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy, as his successor. Hitler committs a suicide in order to evade capture after Nazi Germany's defeat. Nazi propaganda attempts to present his death as a heroic fall in the struggle against Bolshevism.

7th

 * Attack on HYDRA Research Facility Number 4: Werner Reinhardt attempts to evacuate the HYDRA Research Facility in Austria and escape with numerous mysterious artifacts that HYDRA collected over the years. His base is attacked by the SSR troops led by Peggy Carter, Dum Dum Dugan, and Jim Morita. Reinhardt and his men are arrested and all the artifacts are confiscated by the SSR.

8th

 * The Allied nations celebrate the . The Howling Commandos reunite to commemorate the sacrifice of Captain America. Howard Stark discovers the Tesseract at the bottom of the ocean in his search for Steve Rogers, but fails to locate the crashed Valkyrie. Rogers will remain missing for almost 70 years.

9th

 * German Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel signs the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany at Soviet headquarters in Berlin.

19th

 * The United States begin Operation Overcast, later renamed Operation Paperclip, an effort to recruit former Nazi scientists to work for the United States.

21st

 * Werner Reinhardt is taken to a secret Strategic Scientific Reserve facility and interrogated by Peggy Carter. He attempts to offer his services to the SSR, even relaying information regarding the Obelisk and the Kree, but is instead sentenced to life imprisonment.

23rd

 * Heinrich Himmler commits suicide.
 * and fellow post-Hitler Nazi politicians surrender to British forces, marking the end of Nazi governance in Germany.

25th

 * Gary Hendricks buys a newly printed comic about the war hero Captain America, avidly reading it.

6th

 * An atomic bomb is dropped over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

9th

 * An atomic bomb is dropped over the Japanese city of Nagasaki.

15th

 * Japan agrees to surrender following the dropping of two atomic bombs over and.

2nd

 * The is signed, formally marking the end of World War II.

December

 * Howard Stark attempts to impress his date "Ida Emke" by showing her his self-piloting airplane. He invites her to see other inventions in his mansion.

16th

 * Howard Stark tries to acquire the Roxxon Refinery from Hugh Jones, who refuses to sell it due to Stark's affair with his wife.

February

 * Howard Stark returns home from a pleasure trip in Monaco and discovers that someone had cut a hole into the vault of his mansion and stole his inventions stored there. A couple of weeks later, his inventions begin turning up on the black market.

21st

 * The first day of Howard Stark's trials by the United States Congress, in an attempt to learn if he is a traitor.

22nd

 * The second day of Howard Stark's trials by the United States Congress.

23rd

 * Howard Stark does not show up at a hearing on the third day of his trials, which deems him a fugutive and target of the Strategic Scientific Reserve.

24th

 * While waiting for her tea to be ready, Peggy Carter daydreams about her last contact with Steve Rogers.
 * Peggy Carter's roommate, Colleen O'Brien, returns from her nightshift work at the factory and tells Carter about her day. She states that ten more women have been replaced by war veterans.
 * At the New York Bell Company Office, Roger Dooley puts Jack Thompson in charge of the search for Howard Stark. Thompson plans to ground his planes and freeze his bank accounts. At the end of the meeting, Ray Krzeminski makes a remark about Carter knowing many men during the war. Daniel Sousa does not accept this remarks and stands up for Carter.
 * Carter tells Sousa that he should not have stood up for her, to which Sousa reacts that he is tired of seeing the men treat Carter as their secretary. Before ending their conversation, Thomspon asks Carter to archive a number of surveilliance reports, because she is "better at that kind of thing".
 * That evening, Carter has dinner at the L&L Automat. While getting some food, Edwin Jarvis places a note saying "Meet in the alley in 5 minutes" on her table.
 * Outside of the L&L Automat, Jarvis approaches Carter, telling her to come with him. Carter, not trusting him, knocks Jarvis out before running away from an approaching car. When she is unable to escape she shoots at the car's tire. Howard Stark then opens the door of the car.
 * Howard Stark takes Carter to the harbor. On the ride there, Stark explains the situation to her and asks her to clear his name. This would make her a double agent and a traitor.
 * Before leaving overseas, Stark asks Carter to make sure that the formula for Nitramene, which is supposed to hit the market in the next day or two, does not get in the wrong hands. He also tells Carter that Jarvis will assist her when needed.

25th

 * At the New York Bell Company Office, Peggy Carter notices Daniel Sousa researching some photos and files about Howard Stark. In some of the photos, Stark is standing on a boat with a woman. Carter tells Sousa a lie about Stark not being able to swim.
 * When Peggy Carter notices Roger Dooley, Jack Thompson, Ray Krzeminski and Yauch having a meeting about the sale of one of Howard Stark's inventions, she enters the meeting room to learn more about it. She does this under the cover of bringing them coffee. When she has heard enough, she asks for a sick day, claiming that she has a headache and "ladies' things".
 * That evening, at "La Martinique", Leet Brannis sells Spider Raymond a Nitramene bomb.
 * Later that night, Peggy Carter goes to the La Martinique to pay Spider Raymond a visit. She wears a disguise and uses an American accent to avoid being noticed. In Raymond's office, Carter seduces Raymond into revealing that he has the Nitramene; she then uses her Sweet Dreams Lipstick to knock him out and a Pick-Lock Wristwatch to crack his safe and find the bomb.
 * Upon awaking, Raymond notices that the bomb has been stolen from him. He is then killed by a Man in a Green Suit.
 * Ambush at Colleen O'Brien's Apartment: Back in her apartment, Carter defuses the bomb with the help of Edwin Jarvis. When she emerges from the bathroom she finds Colleen O'Brien dead and the man in the Green Suit about to kill her. Carter burns his hand during the fight that follows en he eventually flees.

26th

 * At the L&L Automat, Edwin Jarvis and Peggy Carter talk about the death of Colleen O'Brien and the total job. When Carter wants to know who could have manufactured the bomb, Jarvis tells her that he might know a way to find out.
 * Jarvis takes Carter to the Stark Industries New York Facility where Anton Vanko, a Soviet-born scientist who is currently living in America and working for Stark Industries, tells them that the Nitramene emitted Vita Radiation and that only the Roxxon Oil Corporation has the means of weaponizing the formula.
 * Carter then goes to the New York Bell Company Office to get the Vita-Ray Detector stored with Steve Rogers' files.
 * At the Hotel Cosmopolitan, the Man in a Green Suit receives orders to do whatever is necessary.
 * Destruction of the Roxxon Refinery: In the Roxxon Refinery, Carter finds Leet Brannis and Miles Van Ert discussing the bombs. The men get warned of someone's presence in the Refinery because Jarvis sends Carter a message. Carter uses her Stun Light Device to knock Van Ert out, before chasing Brannis outside. Once outside, Brannis finds himself standing in front of a Daisy Clover Milk Factory truck filled with bombs. Brannis tells Carter that Leviathan is coming, before Brannis dropping one of these bombs on the ground.
 * Carter tells Jarvis that he needs to come with the car so that they can escape the terrain. During their escape, the bomb explodes, followed by a massive implosion. While they manage to escape, their car loses its license plate.
 * At the New York Bell Company Office, Daniel Sousa and Roger Dooley are discussing Howard Stark's dissappearance, when Jack Thompson comes in. He tells them that the bouncer of La Martinique club spotted a blonde woman at the scene of Spider Raymond's death and that the club's photographer thinks he got a photo of her.
 * Daniel Sousa answers a phonecall from the authority, saying that the Roxxon Refinery blew up. Dooley then takes both of them to investigate the location.

27th

 * Peggy Carter and Edwin Jarvis, who just barely escaped the Roxxon Refinery have a talk at the L&L Automat, where she whispers the word "Leviathan" to him. Jarvis then leaves the L&L Automat, telling Carter that he will check Howard Stark's files.
 * Before leaving the L&L Automat, Carter sees a vetaran harrassing Angie Martinelli and threatens him good enough that he leaves Martinelli a good tip.
 * Outside, Jarvis makes a secret phone call to Howard Stark.
 * That night, while at the L&L Automat, Peggy Carter reads the newspaper ads in search of a new apartment, being that she is currently homeless. Angie Martinelli tells her that an apartment in her boarding house just became free and asks her to move in. Carter refuses.
 * Edwin Jarvis, in Howard Stark's name, offers Carter one of Howard Stark's Penthouse apartments to stay. Originally, Carter refuses, but since she has not slept in a while, she puts Jarvis out so she can rest.
 * The Man in a Green Suit receives a message from Leviathan about getting Howard Stark's inventions, mentioning that they are growing impatient and that he needs to track down Leet Brannis.
 * To learn more about Leet Brannis' location, the Man in a Green Suit threatens a local mob boss. The mob boss gives him the name of someone who might know more. Having gained the information he wanted the man in a green suit kills the mob boss.

28th

 * To learn more about Daisy Clover's involvement in the Nitramene business, Peggy Carter poses as a health inspector for the City of New York to inspect the Daisy Clover Milk Factory. She discovers that the milk delivery bus of Sheldon McFee is missing.
 * At the New York Bell Company Office, Roger Dooley, Jack Thompson and Ray Krzeminski discuss the ball of imploded mass from the Roxxon Refinery. Dooley decides to take Thompson with him to the Roxxon Oil Corporation Headquarters while Krzeminski has to take the ball apart.
 * In her office, Carter makes a phonecall to receive the address of Sheldon McFee. She asks Daniel Sousa to cover for her while she leaves the office for "personal business". Sousa recieves the photos taken at "La Martinique".
 * Before being able to see the photos, Ray Krzeminski tells Sousa to help him with the ball of imploded mass. Sousa places the photos in a drawer of his bureau and locks it before going to the basement to help Krzeminski.
 * At the Roxxon Oil Corporation Headquarters, Roger Dooley and Jack Thompson question Hugh Jones about the explosion of the Roxxon Refinery. He tells them that one of his sources working in Stark Industries told him that Howard Stark was working on a formula for Nitramene, which has its roots in Vita Radiation..
 * Peggy Carter tries to break into the drawer of Daniel Sousa's bureau but is interrupted by a phonecall from Roger Dooley, asking her to come to the Roxxon Oil Corporation Headquarters with the Vita-Ray Detector. At the headquarters, she is tasked with scanning women working at the Roxxon Oil Corporation for Vita Radiation on their clothing or body. Before doing so, she has to throw away the watch she received from her grandmother.
 * During the proces of scanning the staff, Jack Thompson scans Miles Van Ert, but does not detect any Vita Radiation. Peggy Carter, who recognizes Van Ert, asks Hugh Jones if they could check the clothing of the staff who worked that morning. This question makes Van Ert run away. Thompson and Dooley follow him down the corridor, where Van Ert is knocked down by Carter, who used a shortcut.
 * Dooley and Thompson bring Van Ert back to the New York Bell Company Office for interrogation. They tell him that he will not receive a big punishment if he tells them the name of his employer. When he does not give up a name, Thompson is tasked to beat it out of him.
 * Later that night, while waiting for Edwin Jarvis, Peggy Carter is approached by Angie Martinelli, who tries to convince Carter into moving in to the Griffith Hotel.
 * Jarvis picks up Peggy Carter at the L&L Automat Automat and the two of them Peggy Carter drive to the home of Sheldon McFee.
 * Around the same time, the man in the green suit finds out about McFee, by killing a local mob led by Gino DeLucia. The Strategic Scientific Reserve agents also find out about McFee, by beating it out of Miles Van Ert.
 * At McFee's house, him and Peggy Carter have a fight, which ends with McFee being knocked out by Carter. Before Carter is able to interrogate McFee, she notices someone leaving the house. Outside she finds Leet Brannis trying to start the Daisy Clover truck. To make sure Brannis does not drive away, Edwin Jarvis sabotages the truck.
 * While traveling back to New York City, where Peggy Carter hopes to get answers on her questions, the Man in the Green Suit jumps off a bridge, landing on the roof of the truck. Carter climbs onto the roof of the truck and fights him. During their fight, the Man in the Green Suit fires a shot through the roof of the truck, hitting Brannis. When Jarvis tries to control the truck, he notices one of the Nitramene bombs falling out of its shell.
 * Meanwhile, Roger Dooley, Jack Thompson, and a group of other agents find McFee running away from his house and take him in.
 * At a corner in the road, Carter stabs a knife through the hand of the Man in the Green Suit, pinning him to the roof of the truck. She then, together with Jarvis and the wounded Brannis, jumps away from the truck before it lands in a river down a ravine and causes a massive explosion followed by implosion, killing the Man in the Green Suit.
 * Just before he dies, Carter manages to learn more about the location of Howard Stark's stolen weapons, in the form of a symbol, from Brannis.
 * Dooley and the agents, who noticed the blast caused by the explosion, investigate the location. Here, Daniel Sousa finds the key of a room at the Hotel Cosmopolitan used by the Man in the Green Suit.
 * Back at Howard Stark's Penthouse, Edwin Jarvis stitches Peggy Carter's wounds and tells her that she should allow others to help her.

29th

 * Peggy Carter, to the enjoyment of Angie Martinelli, changes her mind and has her interview at the Griffith Hotel. She is accepted and Miriam Fry tells her the house rules.
 * Later that day, upon arriving at the New York Bell Company Office, Carter notices Roger Dooley, Jack Thompson and Daniel Sousa discussing one of the photos taken at "La Martinique". When they notice her they ask her to come closer. She is relieved when she finds out that they had a bet about her recognizing a boxer.
 * At the basement of the New York Bell Company Office, Ray Krzeminski finds the license plate of Howard Stark's car used by Carter and Edwin Jarvis to escape the Roxxon Refinery implosion.
 * Before going to bed, Carter tries to learn more about the symbol shown to her by Leet Brannis. While doing so she is disturbed by Jimmy, who wants to spend the night with his girlfriend, Molly Bowden.
 * Roger Dooley and Ray Krzeminski visit Hotel Cosmopolitan to investigate the room used by the Man in the Green Suit. They find money, a few passports and the Remote Typewriter he used to communicate with Leviathan.

30th

 * During breakfast at the Griffith Hotel, Miriam Fry tells a story about a visit from Houdini, who did not manage to ascend the stairway. She then tells Molly Bowden to leave the Griffith for allowing a man into her room.
 * In Roger Dooley's office, he, Jack Thompson, and Ray Krzeminski discuss what they have learned about Leet Brannis and the items they found at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Thompson is tasked with learning the identity of the man in the green suit. Before being able to do so, Daniel Sousa informs them all that the license plate they discovered belonged to a car owned by Howard Stark.
 * Peggy Carter visits Howard Stark's Mansion to investigate its vault. Sousa and Thomspon arrive at the mansion in search of the car. Jarvis, who was also at the mansion, tells them that the car was stolen a few days before. Not believing the story, they take him with to the New York Bell Company Office.
 * Instead of investigating the vault, Carter also travels to the office and enters the observation room to listen to Thompson interrogating Jarvis. When Thompson threatens him with deportation, Carter leaves the observation room. She then fakes a stolen car report and hands it over to Dooley, which gives Jarvis a reason to leave the New York Bell Company Office.
 * Back in Dooley's office, he angrily sends Carter away, telling her to apologize to Thompson for faking the report.
 * That evening, Carter gets ready to investigate Howard Stark's vault. Angie Martinelli knocks on her door and enters her room with the wish to talk about their day. Carter, who does not have the time to do so, sends her away, giving her the excuse that she wants to go to bed.
 * The moment Martinelli leaves Carter's room, Miriam Fry walks by with a new tenant, Dottie Underwood. Fry introduces them to each other.
 * Upon arriving at Stark's mansion, Carter, who had listened to Jarvis's interrogation, asks if Jarvis wants to tell her anything. He tells her he has not entered the house to investigate the vault. They descend into a hole in the floor, leading towards the sewers.
 * At the New York Bell Company Office, Daniel Sousa and Ray Krzeminski start their night shift. Jack Thompson, before leaving, gives them a file with the information he received about the man in the green suit.
 * Edwin Jarvis and Peggy Carter follow the sewers. While following the path, Jarvis tells Carter the reason Stark was dishonourable, discharged, and charged with treason. He also tells her that it is because of Stark that he and his wife weren't prosecuted.
 * At the end of the sewers, Carter recognizes the symbol Brannis had drawn for her on a boat, The Heartbreak. In the boat, they find many of Stark's stolen items. At first, Carter plans to turn the items in herself, so she could get the credit and be respected; Jarvis advises her against it, citing she would only be seen as a possible collaborator of Stark. Carter then tells Jarvis to call the Strategic Scientific Reserve, to make sure that Sousa gets the credit and that they do not recognize his voice.
 * Sousa and Krzeminski travel to the harbor to investigate the anomynous tip.
 * On the boat, Carter fights Jerome Zandow, the protector of the stolen items. Carter uses a device called the Constrictor to take him down.
 * Upon arriving, Sousa and Krzeminski find the items and the knocked down Zandow. They then call for reinforcement to bring the items back to the office. Krzeminski is ordered to bring Zandow to the office. While waiting at a stop sign, a car driven by an unknown woman rams their car. Krzeminski gets out of the car, just to be killed by the woman, who afterwards also kills Zandow.

1st

 * Peggy Carter arrives at the New York Bell Company Office to find both the women downstairs and the agents upstairs saddened by the death of Krzeminski. Sousa sees the death of Krzeminski as a reminder that death can happen any moment and thinks the annomynous tipper tricked them into coming, saying that he is going to find that bastard. Roger Dooley tells the agents that he blames Howard Stark and wants action plans to make sure they will not lose any more agents. He tells goes off to call Krzeminski's wife, while Jack Thompson calls his girlfriend.
 * That evening Carter goes to the "L&L Automat" and tells Angie Martinelli about her job. They then go back to the Griffith Hotel to drink some schnapps.

2nd

 * To make sure Howard Stark gets back into the country he and Jarvis made a deal with Otto Mink, a smugler. For 50,000 dollars Mink would deliver Stark at a New York trainstation.
 * At the station Jarvis hands over the agreed upon amount of money to two of Mink's men. At the same time Peggy Carter takes out the three other men controling the area. As a bribe to keep their mouths shut the two men try to threaten Jarvis into giving another 100,000 dollar. Jarvis, who add first refuses to give more money, hands them his suitcase, which has a gas inside of it.
 * The two of them then open the traincart in which Stark was transported into the country. In this cart, which is furnished expensively, Stark is playing pool.
 * On their way to one of Stark's most secret residents Carter orders to stop the car, warning them for agent Yauch and Henry, who are standing on look out for the resident. She instead takes Stark to her appartment at the Griffith Hotel. Carter uses the laundryshaft to send Stark upstairs. Here she she is caught by Miriam Fry, who thinks Carter is bring a boy to her room.
 * At the New York Bell Company Office Jack Thompson and Roger Dooley discuss the Battle of Finow and the Remote Typewriter. Dooley then tells Thompson that he plans to go to Germany talk about the battle with Ernst Mueller.
 * Back at her room, before entering her appartment, Fry tells Carter that she still has to get her laundry, expecting to find a boy in the shaft. To her relief Stark has already left the shaft and entered the room of Lorraine, where they made out.

3rd

 * Before going to work Stark gives Carter a Camera Pen to make photos of the inventions in the Strategic Scientific Reserves possession.
 * At work Carter is ordered to take on the lunch orders. In the labratorium, while recieving the lunch order of Alex Doobin, she makes photos of the items stored her.
 * In the hope of learning more about the annomynous tipper Daniel Sousa travels to the harbor. Here he first tries to recieve some fingerprints, before being distrubed by some gooms playing poker. Trying to get more information he gives them some nickles. Frank, one of the two gooms, refuses to give information and tries to punch Sousa for not going away. Sousa then takes him down and brings him back to the office for interrogation.
 * Otto Mink, because of their faulire at the trainstation, kills the two men ordered to recieve the money. Before his death one of the two men told Mink that he heard Stark calling the woman that took them down Peggy.
 * While checking the photos made by Carter Angie Martinelli knocks the door, asking if Carer is coming for communal dining. Howard Stark pushes Peggy Carter, who first said she would not join dinner, to go and eat, while also asking her to take some food for him with her.
 * Sousa tells Frank about what happened when he just came back from the war, hoping this story would make Frank talk, which he does not.
 * Before dinner Carter puts some of the food into her purse. Back in her room Stark tells carter that she has to steal one of the inventions called the Blitzkrieg Button, a decide that causes an instant city whipe out. He gives her a replacement, so they would not notice it being stolen.
 * At the office Jack Thompson interupts the interrogation with a bottle of scotch and a hamburger. He tells Frank that if Frank tells what he has seen all of it would be his. Frank immediatly tells them about a well dressed man and a dark haired woman who went on and off the boat.
 * In Germany Roger Dooley and Ernst Mueller talk about what happened in Finow. Dooley promises Mueller that if he tells him what happened he would help him escape. Dooley then tells Mueller about the hanging of another german prisoner he promises Mueller a painless death by taking cyanide. Mueller explains that there was no battle, that when the germans arrived all the Russians were already dead. Dooley then gave him a freshmint. Outside of the cell he also gives the guard a freshmint.
 * Carter replaces the real with the fake Blitzkrieg Button, and she nervously presses the button, not having fully trusted Howard Stark's intentions. To her suprise the device holds a vial of blood. While trying to leave the office she has to hide into the interregation room, where she bumps into Thompson, who tells her that no men would ever see her as equal.
 * In her room Peggy Carter asks Howard Stark what is in the vial. She knocks him down when he tells her that it is Steve Rogers blood.
 * Downstairs Otto Mink, who had been following Carter since she drove to the New York Bell Company Office, enters the Griffith Hotel disguised as a flower delivery boy. He hands the flowers over to Miriam Fry and where he figures out Carter her room number. He then leaves the building.
 * Carter angrly talks to Stark about lying to her. Carter suspects Stark of using the vial to make millions of dollars and calls him a man who is out for his own gain no matter what. She tells him that she is done working as a corporate spy and angrly leaves the room to get away from his stink, telling Stark that he has to be gone when she gets back.
 * When Dottie Underwood leaves her room she notices Mink trying to enter Carter her room. When she does not go back into her room Minkthreatens her with a Automatic Pistol. Underwood who wants to have this gun kills him and drags the body to her room.

4th

 * Peggy Carter, who just bought lunch and is walking back to work, is approached by Edwin Jarvis who talks to Peggy Carter about the respect he and Howard Stark have for her, asking her who else holds her in such high esteem. When she does not react the way Jarvis hoped he turns back and tells Stark that she took her for granted and that this situation stings.
 * At the New York Bell Company Office Carter gives everyone their lunch, while Daniel Sousa takes a closer look at the photo made in "La Martinique" and Jack Thompson and Roger Dooley discuss what Ernst Mueller has told him. Thompson tells Dooley about Stark being on a plane leaving Finow airfield.
 * Back in her room Carter makes a hole in her wall to hide the Blitzkrieg Button in.
 * While reading some of the new information recieved Dooley notices the Remote Typewriter sending recieving a message.

5th

 * Dottie Underwood wakes up from a dream about her days back at the Red Room Academy and starts her morning workout, before having breakfast with Peggy Carter at the L&L Automat.
 * During breakfast Underwood plans a tour trough New York, with Carter giving her advice. Before they both leave the L&L Automat Underwood throws Carter's bag on the ground, making it look like an accident. While gathering Carter her stuff to put it back in her bag Underwood steals Carter her roomkey.
 * On her way to work Carter buys todays newspaper at a stand. At the stand she is met by Edwin Jarvis who wants to have a moment of her time. While she does have a talk with him she does not want anything to do with him or Howard Stark anymore.
 * At the New York Bell Company Office Daniel Sousa tells Carter that the Remote Typewriter turned it self on and recieved an encoded message. To help them crack the code Arlington Hall send them a cryptographer. Much to the displeasure of Roger Dooley and Jack Thompson the cryptographer is unable to break the code.
 * Carter immediatly recognizes the code and breaks it. The code gives them the coordinates, time and the amount to pay for an item exchange between Howard Stark and Leviathan in Belarus.
 * When Carter tells Dooley and Thompson that she wants to join Thompson, Rick Ramirez and Mike Li on their mission to Russia they are first against it. When she tells them that she can deliver the 107th Dooley tells her that she is allowed to join the mission if that happens. When she returns from a phonecall and tells them the 107th will meet them at the russian border Dooley allows her to join the mission. Dooley tells them both to gear up and roll out in an hour.
 * Thompson tricks Daniel Sousa, who just brought him the field report, into entering Carter her part of the room. Before leaving Thompson spots two dots on Carter her back.
 * The team drops into Poland where the meet the 107th. Dum Dum Dugan, Junior Juniper, Pinky Pinkerton and Happy Sam Sawyer. Agent Ramirez was excited to meet the Howling Commandos, and as Sawyer said that he hated that name, Juniper complained, given that he was the one who created the name. Dugan tells Thompson that they will cross the border with Russia at Ashmyany, Lithuania.
 * On their way to Lithuania Dugan and Carter share a cup of bourbon and talk about the trap they are running into.
 * Back at the New York Bell Company Office Daniel Sousa realizes that Peggy Carter is the blond woman on the photos taken at La Martinique.
 * While sitting at a campfire Carter and the Howling commando's make fun of Juniper, who supposedly saw a Yeti in Tibet. Carter then pushes Thompson into telling the reason he recieved a Navy Cross: while serving in Japan he saved his CEO and his camp from a Japanese attack.
 * At a bar in New York Roger Dooley has a conversation with an old friend about the Battle of Finow: Howard Stark visited the location in the aftermath of the battle and punched general John McGinnis. A week later McGinnis resigned from the army and another week later Stark cuts his ties with the army.

6th

 * Infiltration into the Red Room Academy: At the Red Room Academy the team decide to split into two groups of four. In the Red Room Academy Carter her group enters a schoolroom focused on the United States of America. Agent Mike Li accidently starts an American cartoon with a hidden message behind it. Li then hears a Little Girl crying. They encounter the kid sitting against one of the beds in a sleeping hall. While Dugan talks to her she manages to get him distracted and stabs him with her knife. She then takes his gun and shoots Junior Juniper, killing him. Carter then stops Dugan from throwing a hand grenade into the shaft the girl used to espace before deciding they have to leave. While Dugan, Rick Ramirez and Pinky Pinkerton search for a way out Carter and the others enter a corridor. This corridor is guarded by a few Russian soldier. They kill the soldiers and find a cell containing doctor Ivchenko and Nikola. Ivchenko tells Carter that they were improsened to build a weapon from a blueprint stolen from Stark. They free the prisoners and in the ensuing firefight with Leviathan operatives Mike Li is killed by the little girl. Nikolai, hoping for his freedom, offers to trade the three Americans if he and Ivchenko are free to leave. Tearfully Ivchenko kills Nikola. Meanwhile Thomspon freezes and is to scared to help in the shootout. A minute later Dugan blows a hole in the wall, allowing everyone to escape. Carter pushes Thompson to man up and leave the building. They then escape with Ivchenko using one of the trucks.
 * In New York Dooley waits for Edwin Jarvis at his car. When Jarvis arrives Dooley asks him about the fist fight Stark had with McGinnis. When Jarvis says he does not know anything about this Dooley tells him that he just wants to know the truth and gives Jarvis a card with his number.
 * At the Griffith Hotel Dottie Underwood uses the key she stole to enter Carter her bedroom. Here she steals one of the photos taken in the Strategic Scientific Reserve's lab and the Sweet Dreams Lipstick. She then places the Carter her safety measure back and leaves the room.
 * As Carter bids farewell to the Howling Commandos, Carter aks Ivchenko if he wants to go with them to the United States, claiming that they could use his help to fight Leviathan. Ivchenko, claiming he has nowhere elso to go agrees.
 * On the plane ride home, Carter and Thompson have a conversation about how he freezed. Thompson decides to tell Carter the truth about how he became a war hero. The Japanese he killed entering his camp carried white flags and were attempting to surrender, he just noticed to late and burried the white flags before anyone would notice. Thompson tells her that he always wanted to tell someone this story and that it becomes harder and harder to live with everyone thinking he is a guy he is not. She decides that his secret is safe.
 * Before going to sleep Underwood cufs her self to the bed.
 * Dooley, who just got debriefed about the mission, meets Ivchenko. Thompson invites Carter, who was talking with Daniel Sousa to join them at the bar, telling her he owns her a bourbon. Sousa, now distrustful of Carter, looks at the photo from La Martinique while Carter walks away.

7th

 * At the New York Bell Company Office Ivchenko tells Roger Dooley, Jack Thompson and Peggy Carter about the way he was recruited into Leviathan.
 * When Carter wants to know as much as possible about the girls at the Red Room Academy Dooley takes her outside his office, telling her that he wants to know as much as possible about Leviathan and that he does not care about the girls. When Carter tries to convince him that one of the girls grew up to kill Ray Krzeminski and trick Howard Stark he sends her away to follow this lead.
 * Carter goes to the L&L Automat to wait for Edwin Jarvis. While waiting Angie Martinelli performs an audition she has had for a part on stage.
 * Jarvis arrives at the Automat and Carter explains the situation to him, asking for a list of all the women Stark has entertained in the last six months.
 * Dottie Underwood leaves the subway system in front of the New York Bell Company Office. She has a quick look at the building before entering the opposite building for a job interview at Seth Honicky's Dentistry Office.
 * Daniel Sousa visits the prison to learn more about the women that attacked Sheldon McFee. In exchange for the identification of the women Sousa would shorten McFee's time in prison. Sousa then showed him a photo of Carter and McFee identifices her as the women that attacked him.
 * To get a list of women Carter and Jarvis visit Albert, a jeweler that makes bracelets for every woman Stark dates. Upon seeing the list Carter starts crossing names of the list, explaining to Jarvis that these people are well known and established people in New York City and could not be Russian spies.
 * During the interview Underwood kills Seth Honicky.
 * Carter and Jarvis start visiting the women left on the list, trying to see if they got scars on the wrist from being cuffed to the bed. The first three women on the list do not have the scars. They then have to visit Ida Emke.
 * At the office Ivchenko and Dooley take a break from work to have a drink. Meanwhile Underwood prepares a sniper gun. While seemingly looking outside to see more of New York City Ivchenko and Underwood communicate in code. Ivchenko tells Underwood that he needs more time and orders her to kill Carter.
 * When there is no one at home in the appartment of Emke Carter enters the room to find information. Here she notices scretches on the bedpost from the handcuff. Carter tells Jarvis to track down the owners of the building while she talks to neighbours to gain more information about Emke. The would meet at the Automat.
 * Still on their break Dooley and Ivchenko talk about Dooleys family problems. Ivchenko uses this time to try and hypnotize Dooley. They are disturbed when Sousa enters the office to give Dooley the information he required about Carter being a traitor. Dooley sends agents from Washington, D.C. to the Automat to arrest Carter.
 * Ambush at the L&L Automat: At the Automat Carter and Jarvis share the information they gained. Carter then notices that everyone besides a few agents from D.C. leave the Automat, which is part of procedure 791: Isolate the suspects, remove the civilians before arrest. Carter then tells Jarvis to block the frontdoor while she takes care of the rest. Carter takes out the three agents inside the Automat and Jarvis and Carter leave via the backdoor. Here they are stopped by Thompson, who keeps Carter at gunpoint. Carter then knocks him down. Jarvis and Carter split up and agree to meet at the Dublin house. Before leaving the street to visit the Griffith Hotel she is again stopped at gunpoint. This time by Daniel Sousa. She apologizes to him before running away.
 * Back at the office Dooley is displeased to hear that Carter managed to escape the men. Dooley threatens that everyone there will become grade school hall monitors if they fail to apprehend Carter. Dooley then orders Yauch to babysit Ivchenko while he deals with the Carter debacle. Ivchenko while talking to Yauch hypnotizes him and has him tell everything he knows about the Howard Stark investigation, his inventions and how to escape the building. Ivchenko then instructs Yauch in how he wants him to commit suicide.
 * Chase of Peggy Carter: Thompson, Sousa and a group of agents travel to the Griffith Hotel. They enter the building shortly after Carter. They receive the room number from Miriam Fry and the agents move upstairs to Carter her room, where at the same moment Carter is retrieving the Blitzkrieg Button out of its hiding place.
 * The agents enter Carter her room where they start searching for her, but Carter just in time left the room via the window and hides on the ledge. The agents then visit Angie Martinelli her room, who just before had noticed Carter standing on the ledge. The agents start questiong Martinelli her friendship with Carter. Martinelli uses her acting skills and a lie to help Carter. The agents soon leave her room to talk to other neighbors, not being able to handle a crying woman. Martinelli then allows Carter into her room.
 * To help Carter escape Martinelli calls her brother, who promises to drop a car at the Dublin building. They then say goodbye to each other and Carter leaves the room.
 * On her way out Carter runs into Underwood, who kisses Carter unexpectedly. Because Underwood wears Carter her Sweet Dreams Lipstick she is knocked out unconscious. While falling down Carter notices the handcuff scars on Underwood her wrists. Before being able to kill Carter using a knife Thompson and Sousa approach Underwood. Underwood tells them that she found Carter laying on the floor this way. The agents handcuff Carter and take her with them to their car. While walking trough the Griffith Hotel the other residents follow them outside, watching them while Carter is placed in the back of the police car. From the back of the car Carter looks at Underwood, standing between the residents.
 * At the New York Bell Company Office Carter tells Dooley that she can explain it all.
 * When Fry wants all the residents downstairs Martinelli knocks on Underwoods door to get her. When she enters the room she notices it being empty.
 * In the interregation room, where she is handcuffed to the table, Dooley tells his men not to go easy on her just because she is a girl.
 * Carter is interrogated by three different men in three different styles: Daniel Sousa, who uses friendship; Chief Dooley, who uses fatherly disappointment; and Jack Thompson, who cites betrayal from Howard Stark. Ivchenko watches with amazement as Carter calculates each man's speech with an appropriate response. When Thompson questions why he is watching the interviews, Ivchenko chooses to leave than to cause a confrontation.
 * Ivchenko communicates with Dottie Underwood who is stationed across the street in the dentistry office of Seth Honicky. He tells her to get ready for evaculation using Morse Code; however, Carter and Edwin Jarvis, who tried to help her with a false confession he forged with Howard Stark's name, catches him signaling. Dooley tells Ivchenko to close the window but, as he does, he sees Thompson and Sousa leading agents across the street. He knows he has to escalate his plans.
 * Ivchenko takes control of Dooley and has him clear the lab of Alex Doobin. They find Item 17; as an extra boon, Ivchenko finds a Stark Heat Vest, about which he had heard stories. Dooley allows Ivchenko to leave the New York Bell Company uncontested.
 * The agents find Dottie Underwood across the street. She fights her way pass them and retrieves Ivchenko in a car. She tells him that they have been discovered; Ivchenko is calm, telling his accomplice that the SSR will be too busy to pursue them. He tells her that Item 17 needs to be tested.
 * Dooley awakens from the dream that Ivchenko gave him; he is strapped in the Stark Heat Vest with no way of escaping. Roger Dooley jumps from a window as the vest explodes. The pain that Ivchenko has caused the SSR makes him now their number one priority.
 * Massacre at the Cinema Theater: Underwood takes the Midnight Oil to a movie theater in a baby carriage that she had earlier purchased and releases its contents. The released gas makes the patrons kill one another.
 * A movie usherette escortes two guest to the movie. At the doors she notices that the doors have been locked down. When she opens the doors she finds the results of the masacre, which causes her to scream.
 * The New York City Police Department is called to investigate the deaths in the cinema theater.
 * The Strategic Scientific Reserve is called by the New York City Police Department to help to investigate the deaths in the cinema theater. Peggy Carter, Daniel Sousa, and Jack Thompson are the agents sent to investigate. Sousa discovers the canister of the gas that caused forty-seven people to kill each other and accidentally inhales it. He attacks Thompson and slaps Carter before being knocked unconscious. When he awakens, Sousa does not have a clear memory of what he has done; Carter explains to him what happened.

8th

 * Kidnapping of Howard Stark: Howard Stark returns from hiding. Carter questions the motives of Johann Fennhoff as Stark reveals what happened at the Battle of Finow. It is decided that he will be bait to make Fennhoff appear. He appears in public and reveals the events that have taken place. He is no longer deemed a fugitive. However, Stark is kidnapped by Dottie Underwood and Fennhoff, who take Stark to his own hangar. Fennhoff hypnotizes Stark and orders him to fly a plane armed with Midnight Oil into New York City. Stark's butler Edwin Jarvis pursues Stark by plane while Agent Peggy Carter confronts Underwood and Agents Daniel Sousa and Jack Thompson confront Fennhoff. Carter manages to break Stark's hypnosis while Sousa and Thompson arrest Fennhoff, but Underwood escapes from the hangar before Jarvis and Stark return.

9th

 * Senator Walt Cooper visits the New York Bell Company Office of the Strategic Scientific Reserve to commend Thompson for stopping the attack on Times Square. Jarvis shows Angie Martinelli and Peggy Carter to a residence which Stark has provided for them, and Jarvis turns over the vial of Captain America's blood to Carter, who later visits the and empties the blood into the.
 * Once he is imprisoned, Johann Fennhoff discovers that he has Arnim Zola as a cellmate. Since Fennhoff is muzzled, Zola has him write down how his mind-control power works.

After Johann Fennhoff's Campaign



 * Tired of being under appreciated by her misogynistic superior John Flynn, who gives her nothing more than paperwork to do because she is a woman, Peggy Carter of the Strategic Scientific Reserve single-handedly retrieves a vial of formula marked with the Zodiac emblem.
 * John Flynn reprimands Carter for not going through proper procedures in the Zodiac mission. Howard Stark contacts Flynn, telling him Peggy Carter is going to co-manage the newly created S.H.I.E.L.D. with him.

After the Foundation of S.H.I.E.L.D.

 * Arnim Zola is released from prison and recruited to S.H.I.E.L.D. as part of Operation Paperclip. Some time later, Zola and some former HYDRA agents track down Bucky Barnes and find him frozen and alive, missing an arm, where he fell from the train. Zola and the agents take him into their custody.
 * Now a S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist, Zola begins rebuilding HYDRA from within S.H.I.E.L.D.. Bucky Barnes's memory is wiped and he is given a metal prosthetic arm. He is kept cryogenically frozen and becomes a HYDRA weapon known as the Winter Soldier.

1947

 * The Cold War begins.