< 1939 >
Vandal Savage commands Hitler’s armies to invade Poland.
30-year-old Cylvia Cyber's organization the Tribunal makes a fortune supplying armies with technology as the next great war approaches. 31-year-old Steve Trevor is assigned to gather intel on the Tribunal, but is found out, and in his escape crashes on Themyscera where Hippolyta saves him. She leaves the island to bring him home, falling in love with him during the journey, and choosing to remain with him as he battles the Axis forces in Europe and confronting Cyber, and fighting Ares influence in man's world. Away from Themyscera, she begins to age.
Frankenstein becomes the leader of the S.H.A.D.E. wartime assault team, the Creature Commandos, including J.A.K.E., 19-year-old Warren Griffith & 32-year-old Vincent Velcoro.
35-year-old Janos Prohaska's brother and sister are killed when Germany bombs Poland. He and 29-year-old Stanislaus Drozdowski travel to Britain to join their Air Service, but are slowed because they is not British subjects. Instead they form the Blackhawks along with several other European pilots including 50-year-old Ritter Hendricksen, 31-year-old Andre Blanc-Dumont, 36-year-old Olaf Bjornson & 33-year-old Chuck Sirianni.
Richard Swift returns to England at the onset of World War II to defend his home country.
43-year-old Helmut Streicher terrorized the European front as World War II begins.
33-year-old Gerald Shugel begins experimenting on captured polish soldiers. He earns the moniker Ultra-Humanite.
22-year-old Zinda Blake escapes England, wanting to fight. She becomes a fan of the Blackhawks.
27-year-old Al Pratt starts working in the Manhattan Project in Nevada.
24-year-old Louis Kiyahani falls in love with Emmylou Hartley, and is arrested & sent to prison for sleeping with a white woman.
WW2 begins.
Vril Dox first begins augmenting his own intellect cybornetically.