S.S.R.

History
The Strategic Scientific Reserve (S.S.R.) was a top secret American war agency during World War II.

The Strategic Scientific Reserve was formed in 1940 on the orders of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Though the United States wasn't directly involved in World War II at the time, Roosevelt knew that such a situation was only temporary, because Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich were the greatest threat to the free world.

The commanding officer of the S.S.R. was Colonel Chester Phillips. The same year the SSR was formed, he persuaded the American industrialist Howard Stark to join the agency, after a group of assassins sent by Hydra, Hitler's deep science division, tried to kill them both. Shortly after, they organized the rescue of Abraham Erskine from Castle Kaufmann where he was being held by Johann Schmidt, the commanding officer of Hydra.

The S.S.R. was formed from the greatest minds of the Allied nations who assembled to battle the Nazis in Europe. The goal of the S.S.R. was to create an army of super soldiers which could defeat anything the Axis powers had on the battlefield. This led to the Project Rebirth based on the work of their newest acquisition, Erskine, and transformation of Steve Rogers into Captain America.

After World War II, the S.S.R. was re-organized into S.H.I.E.L.D. and its British counter-part S.T.R.I.K.E..

Projects
Project Rebirth