World War III was a large scale conflict involving most of the nations of the world from 1985 to 2001. While some nations involved in the war did not directly engage against each other, many suffered from revolutions or civil wars. The main conflict of this war, though, is largely considered the war in which Japan and America attacked the New German Empire. The reasons for the attack are generally unclear, but it is known that Daniel Jackson hated all forms of democracy and wanted to wipe it off the face of the earth, and that he wanted land in Europe and Africa. Tensions between these nations had been building for years, so it was no surprise that the war broke out. The Soviet Union, which, at this point was really just part of Siberia and Alaska, fell into a state of civil war over inept