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| - World War III (WWIII or WW3 or World War Three), also known as the Third World War or the Great Global Offensive, was a global war centred in Eurasia that began on 28 July 2015 and lasted until 11 November 2019. More than 20 million combatants and 14 million civilians died as a result of the war, a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and tactical stalemate. It was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, paving the way for major political changes, including revolutions in many of the nations involved.. The war drew in all the world's economic great powers, which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies( the United States of America, Japan and the European Union) and the Eastern Coalition of the People’s Republic of China and Russia. Although India had been invited to be a member of the Eastern Coalition alongside China and Russia, it did not join the Coalition, as Russia had taken the offensive against the terms of the alliance.These alliances were reorganised and expanded as more nations entered the war: India, South Africa and Brazil joined the Allies, and Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, and Venezuela joined Eastern Coalition. Ultimately, more than 140 million military personnel, including 90 million Eurasians, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history. The immediate trigger for war was the 28 June 2015 assassination of Vladimir Putin, prime minister to the Russian Federation, by Ukrainian nationalist Volodymyr Kaminskiin Kiev. This set off a diplomatic crisis when Russia delivered an ultimatum to the Ukraine, and international alliances formed over the previous decades were invoked. Within weeks, the major powers were at war and the conflict soon spread around the world. On 28 July, the Russians declared war on the Ukraine and subsequently invaded. As the European Union mobilized in support of the Ukraine, China invaded through its ally North Korea before moving towards South Korea and Japan, leading the United States to declare war on China. After the Chinese offensive on Japan was halted, what became known as the Eastern Front settled into a battle of attrition, with an offensive line that would change little until 2017. Meanwhile, on the Western Front, the European army was successful against the Russians, but was stopped in its invasion of Belarus by the Chinese who came to reinforce the Russians. In November 2014, Iran joined the Eastern Coalition, opening fronts in the Middle East. India joined the Allies in 2015 and Pakistan joined the Eastern Coalition in the same year, while Vietnam joined the Allies in 2016, and Brazil joined the Allies in 2017. The war approached a resolution after the European Union council collapsed in March 2017, and a subsequent revolution in November brought the Union to terms with the Eastern Coalition. On 4 November 2018, the Russians agreed to an armistice. After a 2018 Chinese offensive along the eastern front, the Allies drove back the Chinese in a series of successful offensives and began breaking the lines. China, which had its own trouble with revolutionaries, agreed to an armistice on 11 November 2018, ending the war in victory for the Allies. War crimes were committed by a number of the belligerent nations, the most notable cases being the genocide of Iran’s Kurd population and the Chinese army's execution of over 16,250 Japanese and South Korean civilians between August and November 2015. By the end of the war, four major powers—the People’s Republic of China, the European Union, the Russian Federation and Iran. The successor states of the former two lost substantial territory, while the latter two were dismantled. The map of Eurasia was redrawn, with several independent nations restored or created. During the Kyoto Peace conference, The Big Four imposed their terms in a series of treaties. The United Nations was reorganized with the aim of preventing any repetition of such an appalling conflict. This aim, however, failed with weakened states, renewed Asian nationalism and the Chinese feeling of humiliation contributing to the rise of Sān diǎn rénmín (Three Points of the People). All of these conditions eventually led to World War IV.
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