For anyone interested...

1942-1943: The Freedom Squadron, a group of super-powered beings, make their debut fighting Nazis in World War II. After this, the existence of "hyper-sapiens" could no longer be denied.
1944: Franklin Roosevelt dies, Henry Wallace assumes presidency. Attorney General Earl Warren (F-CA) elected president later that year.
1945-52: President Warren drops the bomb and completes World War II.
1949: After President Warren's landslide victory, the National Republican Party and the Alliance Party merge.
1952: President Warren does not run for re-election. The newly formed National Alliance Party, dubbed the "Whigs," nominate Dwight D. Eisenhower as President with a young senator named Albert Gore as Vice President and win
1954-67: Hyper-sapiens take a higher profile. Various informal committees (or "teams") are formed to "police themselves" since it's difficult for standard law enforcement to. A colony is set up in North Dakota for those that don't wish to live in general society.
1960: Albert Gore becomes the first Vice President to be elected straight to the presidency in over a century.
1961-72: Protests across the country against "American imperialism" and in favor of sexual liberation persist around the country, cutting at the heart of the National Alliance Party. Native Americans and hyper-sapiens become exalted to living the "ideal" life.
1964: Gore's failure to become involved in Vietnam becomes central issue in campaign, which he loses to Senator James Forrester Knight (F-DE).
1965: Fidel Castro assassinated. President Knight denies involvement as his popularity soars.
1966: President Knight Assassinated, Vice President William B. Keller becomes 38th President.
1966-68: Faced with deficits, rising crime, and a civil war in Cuba, Keller's popularity lags. He proposes government licensing for hypers to use their powers in public and fines and penalties for acting without proper licenses regardless of intent. Hypers take a lower profile.
1968: President Keller wins re-election as Whig party remains split between Gore and Goldwater factions.
1968-70: General Fernando Andujar stages coup in South America, begins invading nearby countries, forms United South America (SU), and allies with the Soviet Union. When he invades Chile, Keller sends down troops and Brazile declares war against SU.
1970: Elliot Goldstein (NA-CA) becomes first hyper-sapien elected to congress.
1971-72: Chile liberated, Whig-dominated congress launches investigations into allegations that Keller bribed Brazile to wage war on SU. Clifford Ellington, leader of operations in the region, becomes a household name.
1972: President Keller faces strong primary challenge by Senator Robert F. Kennedy (F-MA) and ultimately loses to Senator Governor Peter Mitchem (NA-MD).
1973: Mitchem attempts to normalize relations with hyper-sapiens, folding their internal criminal justice system with the federal one.
1974: Hypers are hired as federal agents and the first government penatentury is set up in Alaska.
1975: Elliot Goldstein appointed Secretary of Energy and becomes first known hyper to serve in a cabinet.
1976: William Keller becomes the second president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms when Mitchem fails to deliver on his promises of economic recovery and is seen as too sympathetic to Communists, immigrants, and hyper-sapiens.
1977: Elliot Goldstein retains his post as Secretary of Energy. At Keller's request, he compiles a list of all known hypers. Cliff Ellington appointed Secretary of Defense.
1978: Keller creats Iron Forces, a branch of the military with superior training and armor for special missions abroad and domestic cases of hyper-sapien criminal activity.
1980: Senator Martin Holt (NA-CA) wins presidency in landslide in what is largely seen as an admonishment of the increasingly unpopular President Keller, whose Vice President suffered the defeat. Before leaving office, appoints Goldstein as CIA Director.
1981: President Holt orders records on hyper-sapiens to be sealed and brings troops home from South America.
1983: Hyper-sapien "renaissance" occurs when Holt proposes allowing hypers to join the Iron Forces division.
1982-84: Chile, Paraguay, Guyana, Suriname are forcefully admitted into SU. SU forces invade Panama.
1984: Percieved as weak or uninterested in foreign policy, President Holt is defeated by Clifford Ellington.
1985: SU pushed out of Panama.
1987: USSR collapses. Southern Chile and Paraguay win independence.
1988: Ellington easily re-elected.
1989: SU President Andujar announces that he has a nuclear weapons.
1991: South American Summit held between Ellington and Andujar. Elections held in each of the SU states to determine their own status.
1992: Ellington seeks amendment to Constitution to allow him to run again. Governor Maxwell Knight (F-NJ), son of the former president, announces candidacy and becomes 43rd president.
1993: In the SU elections, only Bolivia and North Chile elects to become independent. Skeptics argue that the other states were afraid, proponents argue that it's democracy at work. In their first constitutional election, Bolivia elects a unionist and is promptly rejoined with the SU.
1994: President Knight announces the division of Iron Forces with Hyper Forces and that the two will no longer train together.
1995: SU soldiers enter Paraguay to "maintain order." After two month stand-off, they return to the SU state of Peru.
1996: President Knight wins re-election.
1997: Civil war erupts between Venezuela and United South America.
1998: In a long battle between hyper-sapiens, Washington DC is destroyed. Fortunately, due to the prolonged nature of the battle, only a few hundred are killed before everyone is evacuated.
1999: Venezuela wins its independence.
2000: Despite winning a majority of the popular vote (51%), Secretary of State Kenneth Patterson comes up short in the electoral college. During investigations of vote tampering in Tennessee, Missouri, and Arkansas, Patterson is assassinated by an SU national and shortly after, his opponent declared the victor. President Knight announces his resignation and Vice President David Hockley takes office as the 44th president for the shortest term of any president in US History (24 days).
2001: After the most controversial election in United States history, Senator Franklin Cale (NA-OK) assumes office of the presidency. Then the story begins...