World War III

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World War III or the Third World War, often abbreviated as WWIII or WW3, was a global war that lasted from 2056 to 2062. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Triad powers. In a total war directly involving more than 150 million personnel from more than 60 countries, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centers and the only two uses of nuclear weapons in war. World War III was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 94 to 153 million fatalities, a majority being civilians. Tens of millions of people died due to genocides (including the American Genocide), starvation, massacres, and disease. In the wake of the Axis defeat, Germany and Japan were occupied, and war crimes tribunals were conducted against Chinese and Russian leaders.
The exact causes of World War III are debated, but contributing factors included the Sino-Vietnamese War, Sino-American War, Russian invasion of Europe and the Chinese invasion of Taiwan. World War III is generally accepted to have started on November 1, 2056 with the death of James Winston, an American soldier killed by a Chinese soldier by accident during the Sino-Vietnamese war. In September of 2065, attempting to halt Vietnam's accession into PATO, the People's Republic of China launched a full scale invasion the day Vietnam was set to join. This sparked a proxy war with U.S. President James Hersey sending in American soldiers from the U.S. State of South Vietnam into the north to aid Vietnamese Government. U.S. and Chinese soldiers would intentionally ignore each other as to not accidentally spark a larger conflict. This lasted until the early morning of November 1st when James Winston was killed in combat by a PLA Soldier in the City of Hanoi. This sparked a firefight that spread through the entire country. President Hersey not believing Winston's death to be an accident declared a state of war existed between the two nation and that same day Congress passed a declaration of war. On November 2nd NATO was forced to declare war on the peoples republic of china.
On November 11th Hersey would be shot but would narrowly escape death. He'd resign as President on the 24th with just a month to go in his term. Morris Hillquit would take over as President and attempt to start peace talks however on December 23rd Russia would take the opportunity and launch a full scale invasion of Ukraine and Georgia. Hillquit was forced to then send American soldiers into both Ukraine and Georgia to counter the Russian invasion as well as fortify NATO Forces. Knowing that an invasion was imminent he scrambled to put the American Navy between China and Taiwan but did not arrive in time to stop the opening stages of the invasion. As Taiwan fell the United States was stretched too thin to defend the entire planet and in 2059 the Peoples Republic of China, utilizing surprise EMP bombs, launched a full scale invasion of the United States west coast to ensure the U.S. could not focus on pushing China out of the pacific. This resulted in the creation of the Democratic States of America and the wholesale slaughter of American citizens living on the west coast and the pacific United States and in Afghanistan. Over 50,000,000 Americans were murdered in just a few years.
As the tide of the war turned against the CTSO Russia and China were pushed back to their borders and the largest invasion force in human history of over 37,000,000 American, British, German, Brazilian, Indian, Japanese and South Korean forces invaded Russia and China. Russia was the first of the two to collapse as in a last ditch effort to prevent losing the war, Russian President Soyman Zotova attempted to order the launch of nuclear warheads on March 5, 2061. The men in the nuclear bunker, in charge of carrying out the President's orders, believing that Zotova was dead, refused to carry out the order. One day later, the entirety of the remaining Russian Government, sheltering in place in a bunker near Yakutsk, were all murdered on 6 March when former Russian special forces officer, Makar Pavlov breached the bunker and over the course of an hour, slaughtered the entire Russian Security Counsel. This included President Valerian Polo and the entire Presidential cabinet from Defense to Education. With this act, the Russian Federation effectively ceased to exist as a political entity as most of Russia was under the control of the United States and Britain and the military was in shambles with most having already surrendered weeks before.