Red Dawn: Soviet Domination pre-war timeline

Timeline
1938: Maurice Bavaud shot Hitler but the latter emerged relatively unscathed.

1957: Russians launched Sputnik satellite on October 4th.

1958: Sputnik 3 is launched on April.

1961: Yuri Gagarin is the first man in space.

1963: US President Kennedy is assassinated.

1967: Alexei Leonov and Oleg Makarov is the first to reach the moon though not to surface.

1969: Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon and ARPANET is born. Lunokhod 1 is the first lunar roving vehicle and Alexei Leonov walked on the Moon at the end of the year.

1971: Kosmos 419 is launched to Mars and became the first to orbit it.

1974: Apollo 20 is the last crewed lunar mission.

1976: Gerald Ford won that year's presidential election.

1979: Iran and Nicaraguan communist revolutions while Castro is the subject of Somoza's unsuccessful assassination attempt. Al Haig is shot by Red Army Faction terrorist group.

1980: Ted Kennedy is elected POTUS, Unterweser nuclear plant in West Germany bombed by Red Army Faction. Start of Salvadorian civil war.

1981: Guatemala fell to communism. Inaugural flight of NASA's space shuttle.

1982: Unsuccessful invasion attempt against Belize mounted by Guatemala. Fatal accidental shootdown of a Chinese airliner by Soviet forces in Pacific.

1983: Angola, El Salvador and Honduras became communist. KAL 007 tragedy.

Early 1984: Mexico erupted into unrest with an army colonel mounting coup d'etat and overthrowing the government. However he was forced to flee to the United States afterwards while Cuban-backed communists under Tirado Lopez expand their power and by this time Russia is considering to invade America.

Summer of 1984: Los Angeles Olympics takes place while Mexican communists reached part of the US border. Later on Russia began massive deception operation to hide their invasion preparations. Ted Kennedy is in big trouble because of multiple scandals and KGB begin to assassinate or kidnap various both notable and regular individuals for their perusal.

October 9, 1984: Soviet invasion of America commences with strategic nuclear attacks against critical US locations and knocking out several US satellites with Istrebitel Sputnik systems. They and their allies poured in from Alaska and Mexico later on and KGB pressures America's allies to keep their hands off with the threats to harm the kidnapped individuals.

Upon outbreak of war, STS-41-G was forced to abort their mission and land at Mohammed V International Airport in Morocco that is an emergency landing site.