World War III (Inordinate Vacillation)

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## World War III

Clockwise from top left: American forces engaging Comintern forces during the Battle of Poznań; British Army engages a Soviet armoured detachment at Jena; Joint-Comintern tanks and helicopters launch a combined arms assault against Allied forces on the Western Front; Soviet forces attacking Allied positions in Czechoslovakia; American soldiers charging through the thicket of a gas attack; Soviet tanks and infantry charge forth against Allied trenches.

## World War III (Inordinate Vacillation)

### Place:

Worldwide, most notably within Europe, Asia, Pacific, Atlantic, Caribbean, Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia, Northeastern Asia, Middle East, North Africa, West Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa, South America, Central America

### Outcome:

Allied victory* Fall of the Soviet Union and the Comintern Powers
* Allied military occupations within Russia and China
* Comintern leaders trailed and sentenced to imprisonment or execution by Allied courts
* Beginning of the Information Age, continuation of space exploration
* Dissolution of the United Nations, principally replaced by the Federated Alliance of Democratic States
* Downfall of far-left ideologies most notably Communism
* Continuous expansion of the United States and the British Realm remerging as a Superpower
* 95% of the world's nuclear arsenal being disposed and disarmed along with other WMDs
* Beginning of the Age of Placidity & subsequently, the beginning of the War on Terror and Resource Wars sparked in the Middle East

**World War III** or the **Third World War**, often abbreviated as **WWIII** or **WW3** was a global worldwide conflict which was waged from March 11 1965 until September 23 1977. The conflict engulfed much of the world and was primarily fought between the warring military alliances of the Allied Powers and the Comintern Powers, the Allied Powers consisted the majority of Western Powers, normally led by the United States, Commonwealth and France, and the Comintern was fundamentally led by the Eastern Powers which was spearheaded by the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. Like the previous two World Wars, the Third World War was fought through the means of total war, although, due to the restrictions and limitations of Weapons of Mass Destruction, the conflict was heavily based on conventional fighting. The conflict involved well over 300 Million military personnel and involved a large portion of the world's nations at the time, major nations largely invested their economic, industrial, military, scientific, social, political and cultural efforts towards the war effort with both military and civilian portions merging in collaboration to support the growing base of war support, the war was also pivotal towards shaping the geopolitical and socioeconomic cultural changes following the conflict well into the 21st century, the war was also the most deadliest conflict in Human history, with an estimated casualty rate of both civilian and military personnel being around 131 Million fatalities from all participating countries. The war largely led to various acts of genocide, massacres and the limited usage of WMDs against populated centres which were principally fought over. The conflict was heavily fought on land, air and sea, with exceptions towards aerospace advancements.

The conflict directly originated from the Cold War, which was a time of turbulence and proxy conflicts what existed between the aftermath of the Second World War and the beginning of the Third World War in 1965, between 1947 and 1965, the world was plunged into a standoff between two rivalling Great Powers, the Soviet Union and the United States, both being assisted by their respective allied states, the period saw a large amount of proxy conflicts, notably the Korean and Vietnam Wars which largely grew the political tension and escalation between the Western and Communist Blocs, as both contesting powers vied for global supremacy and control of international affairs, militarisation within both the West and East grew exponentially, with the armament of military equipment and assets directly contesting each other in an arms race, the USSR and US also attempted to compete against one another through the means of expanding their sphere of influences across the globe and making technological and scientific breakthroughs and by influencing global populations through cultural, religious and societal means, the world was largely divided by an Iron Curtain between the West and East, this was most present within the European continent, but also expanded towards Asia with North and South Korea and Vietnam, these tensions failed to deescalate, as both the Soviet Union and United States continued to staunchly rival and contest each other's soft and hard power throughout international affairs, affection millions of people and various nation-states across the globe and had a large lasting economic toll towards the Human population, the problems continued to arise with various other contributing factors, such as the control of natural resources throughout the globe and ideological clashes and with growing global instability along with schisms between both Western and Eastern blocs.

Tensions came ahead between the two rival superpowers as a variety of string events involving countless espionage and military related incidents between both the Soviet Union, the United States and a vast array of many other nations further escalated tensions to a high level, the tensions became adherent with the Cuban Missile Crisis and countless other Cold War conflicts and crisis's which continued to boil diplomatic affairs and relations between the two countries, eventually, by 1965, the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact amassed a large military force in order to invade and occupy West Berlin fully, this prompted the Soviet Union to officially announce a declaration of war against the United States and its allies, as a result, two military alliances were formed, the Allies which were allies of the United States, and the Comintern Powers, which were allies of the Soviet Union and Communist nations and movements. By the Battle of West Berlin, the United States and Soviet Union had engaged in direct conventional combat in Germany, this soon expanded across continental Europe and subsequently affecting regions elsewhere across the world, such as the Middle East, East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Diplomatic efforts within intergovernmental bodies attempted to bargain for an early peace to end the conflict, however these attempts were unsuccessful, as the United Nations was dissolved and the majority of its members becoming apart of the newly re-established Allied Powers which was pitted against the aggression of the Comintern Powers. During the conflict, the Comintern Powers made incursions into neutral countries such as Yugoslavia and various others, which further boosted the support and growth of members within the Allied Powers which opposed Communist control and occupation, unusual combinations of nations ideologically opposed to one another fought within the Allied Powers against the Comintern, the majority being US backed governments during the Cold War.