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This article lists the various real-life, historical figures mentioned in the Resistance series.

Amelia Earhart[]

Amelia earhart

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart was an American aviator who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She achieved celebrity status after becoming the first female passenger to fly across the Atlantic by airplane in June 1928. During a circumnavigational flight, Earhart mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in July 1937.[1]

Douglas MacArthur[]

Main article: Douglas MacArthur

Edward VIII of the United Kingdom[]

Main article: Edward VIII of the United Kingdom

Franklin D. Roosevelt[]

Main article: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Frederick Niland[]

Fredrick-niland

Frederick Niland was an American soldier who fought in World War II and served in H Company, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. He was believed to be the only brother out of four who served and survived the war, and was sent back to the United States after the reported deaths of his brothers.

Niland (whose given name is erroneously spelled as "Fredrick") is mentioned in Resistance: Burning Skies in which he is given a honorable discharge from the U.S. Army after all three of his brothers are reported killed in action.[2]

Henry Cabot Lodge[]

Henry Cabot Lodge c1898

Henry Cabot Lodge

Henry Cabot Lodge was an American Republican politician, historian, and statesman from Massachusetts. He served in the U.S. Senate from 1893 to 1924 and had supported the Spanish–American War, expansion of American territory overseas, and American entry into World War I.

In the Resistance timeline, Lodge was an ardent isolationist who opposed President Woodrow Wilson's declaration of war on Germany during the Great War. He successfully led Congress to overrule Wilson's request for American involvement in the war in Europe.[1]

Herbert Hoover[]

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover was an American politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression. Hoover's response to the depression was widely seen as lackluster.

In the Resistance timeline, Hoover vetoed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act to spare global trade from crippling taxation. As a result, the Dow Jones recovered its losses on the next trading day.[1]

J. Robert Oppenheimer[]

Main article: J. Robert Oppenheimer

Leonid Kulik[]

Main article: Leonid Kulik

Michael Alexandrovich[]

Main article: Michael Alexandrovich

Nikola Tesla[]

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-Croatian inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. He is best known for many revolutionary contributions in the field of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

In the Resistance timeline, in 1928 Tesla received a patent for an aerial transportation system, which became the first instance for a Vertical Takeoff and Landing (VTOL) aircraft. Tesla's VTOL concept was implemented in the development of the UH-17 Atlas and its successor the UH-17 Atlas.[1]

Orson Welles[]

Orson Welles 1937

Orson Welles

George Orson Welles was an American director, actor, writer, producer, and magician who is remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre. In 1938, Welles achieved notoriety for performing a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds, which caused some listeners to believe that a Martian invasion was in fact occurring.

In the Resistance timeline, Welles' radio dramatization of The War of the Worlds created panic and received a very harsh response from the U.S. government (which they were aware of an actual alien threat). The public upbraiding was devastating for Welles, in which his career was ruined.[1]

Richard P. Feynman[]

Main article: Richard P. Feynman

Robert Taft[]

Main article: Robert Taft

Vladimir Lenin[]

Lenin

Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia, and later the Soviet Union, became a one-party socialist state governed by the Communist Party.

In the Resistance timeline, the Russian Revolution of 1917 was crushed by loyal imperial forces. The Bolshevik party was shut down and Lenin was arrested and sentenced to a gulag in Siberia, where he presumably died.

Willard Libby[]

Willard Libby

Willard Libby

Willard Libby was an American physical chemist noted for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology and paleontology.

In the Resistance timeline, Libby is a SRPA scientist stationed in SRPA 5. His method of radiocarbon dating was used on a recovered Gray Tech component to discover it, along with the other Gray Tech components, is over 60 million years old.[3]

Woodrow Wilson[]

Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. As president, Wilson changed the nation's economic policies and led the United States into World War I in 1917.

In the Resistance timeline, in March 1917 Wilson had made requests to Congress to declare war against Germany in response to the German Navy's unrestricted submarine warfare. However, strong isolationist dissidents in Congress, led by Henry Cabot Lodge, turned down Wilson's declaration of war without proof of an overt threat to the United States and/or its interests.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f Timeline retrieved from the official Resistance website.
  2. ^ Honorable Discharge
  3. ^ Intel 18
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