The great powers that were the victors of the war-the United States, Poland, China, the United Kingdom, and India all formed alliance systems that directly cooperated with the United States. World War III altered the political alignment and social structure of the world. Japan was already at war with the People's Republic of China in 2048, but the world war is generally said to have begun on Thanksgiving Day, 2051 with the attack on the US Orbital Defense Network and subsequent declarations of war on Turkey by Poland and India and declarations of war on Japan by the United States and Korea. The Turkish-Japanese Coalition aimed to dominate Eurasia as a new Superpower, with Japan controlling East Asia and Turkey controlling the Middle East, Balkans, and Southern Russia. These made World War III the deadliest conflict of the 21st Century, but was relatively bloodless compared to the previous World Wars. Marked with few civilian casualties, the destruction of only critical infrastructure points, hypersonic precision strikes of enemy military assets, all under the threat of nuclear retaliation for any action that went to far, it only resulted in an estimated 110,000 fatalities. Unlike the two previous World Wars, World War III was not a "total war," but rather a precision war. It was the most widespread war of the century, involving over 5 million people across the planet.
It involved the vast majority of the world's nations-including all of the great powers-eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Alliance and the Coalition. The Third World War, also known as World War III ( WWIII or WW3), was a global war that lasted from 2051 to 2055, though some related conflicts in Asia began before 2051.
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