World War III

World War III was a global conflict that lasted from 2029 to 20XX. The vast majority of the world's countries, including all the great powers, fought as part of two opposing military alliances: the United Nations and the Troika Powers.

The causes of the war are debated; contributing factors included the Great Divide in the United States, the Social Revolutions in Europe, the rise of authoritarian governments in Russia and China, and tensions in the Middle East. World War III is generally considered to have begun on April 11, 2029, when Israelis in Jerusalem were savagely massacred by Iranian paramilitaries in the early morning of Yom HaShoah and over the course of the day and at evening prayers Israel launched several nuclear missiles that struck Iranian cities and military installations, an event known as Annihilation Day. The subsequent Samson Crisis solidified alliances with nations of the Troika between Russia, China, and the Saudi Caliphate, to oppose Israel's allies. Mass deportation of Jews from Israel occurred and the Caliphate assumed temporary control of the territory. When India refused to accept fallout refugees from Pakistan, China supported their shipping to Swahilia and Indonesia, and the Troika declared war on India. Few of India's allies came to its aid, and a cold war period followed.

Demand for retribution against the Jewish deportees grew, and Russia used this as a cassus belli to invade Poland and the Nordic states, citing the need to put certain deportees on trial which the countries refused to extricate. War raged in India while Russia swept through Europe, and all of the countries involved in the war publicly proclaimed they would never use nuclear weapons after the devastation of Annihilation Day. With the United States refusing to ally with any nation, Europe was overrun by Russia and its allies. Russia staged an unprecedented invasion of the British Isles and then, in a surprise move, invaded Canada. China sent armies to secure key territory and resources in Africa alongside the Arab States. Australia and New Zealand also fell to the Chinese.

One of the most violent fronts of the war opened when the U.S. government was on the brink of toppling, and Russia and China staged invasions of the country.

## History

### Course of the war

#### Second Annihilation

Western U.S. and Eastern China both struck by nuclear exchange

U.S. cities struck included Las Vegas, Phoenix, Tucson, Salt Lake City, Boise, Cheyenne, Denver, Colorado Springs, Albuquerque, El Paso, San Antonio, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Corpus Christi, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Wichita, Omaha, and Minneapolis. ￼

Chinese cities struck included Maoming, Zhanjiang, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Wenzhou, Ningbo, Shanghai, Nanjing, Jinan, Qingdao, Wuhan, Zhengzhou, Tianjin, and Beijing.

#### Troika retreat

Intense fighting across Western Exclusion Zone (WXZ) in the U.S. leads to Chinese pushed out of America via San Francisco Bay

#### Indian Ocean naval clashes

American and Latin navies clash with Chinese as they attempt to pave alternate route to India and Southeast Asia. Battles at Crozet Islands, South Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, Maldives, Sri Lanka, the Andaman Islands, and the Malacca Strait.

#### War in the Western Pacific

China's naval defense in the Pacific proved incredibly stout, which forced the U.N. to shift strategy to an invasion of Yunnan through Burma.

#### Chinese government surrenders at Hunan

Campaigns

European Theater

Asian Theater

Indian Theater

African Theater

American Theater

Pacific Theater

Atlantic Theater