World War III (TheWorldChanges)

World War III, or the Third World War, or WWIII or WW3, was a worldwide war that lasted from 2024 to 2032. Most of the world's nations participated in the war. Many changes occurred from 2020 to 2024 that basically set up the war such as a worldwide pandemic, a raid on the U.S. Capitol, the rise of the German Empire, many nations leaving the European Union and NATO, Russia going through massive changes, and the collapse of Communist China caused by an uprising. There was also many new major nations that became more powerful after the war, such as Brazil, Italy, and India. Many had felt that from 2020 to 2024 was an era of change. A world where the ideologies and alliances of different nations shifted and massive changes throughout the governments of the world.

2010s
The prelude to the war began amid through a more peaceful time (1990-2021). Throughout the decade, The United States was the largest superpower, while China and Russia seemed to be on the rise of becoming superpowers. The United Kingdom saw a decrease in importance compared to the rise of China and Russia, as well as other new nations at the time such as Germany and Japan. The United States then entered a trade war with China. In Asia, the Koreas improved their relations majorly in 2018 and 2019, when the leaders of the two nations decided to meet. ISIS, an Islamic Terrorist group ended up being mostly gone by the end of the 2010s, with only small groups who claim to be a part of ISIS were divided across the world. In 2016, the United States elected Donald J. Trump to become president. Members of EU Nations experienced a wave of migrants coming from Middle Eastern nations such as Syria and Turkey. The Russian Federation, lead by President Vladimir Putin, had invaded Crimea in 2014 and what was thought to be some sort of Mini-Cold War was on the way, however this de-escalated after the invasion. There was also Brexit, which was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. This ended up succeeding and the United Kingdom left the EU by January 1st, 2020.

The Year 2020
In China, a virus pandemic was discovered in Wuhan called COVID-19. The Virus rampaged the world and had caused a worldwide panic, to add to it, Policeman Derek Chauvin had killed an African-American man named George Floyd. Many thought that this was racially caused, and many massive protests for the Black Lives Matter. The 2020 Presidential Election saw Joe Biden win against Incumbent President Donald J. Trump. However, Trump accused Biden that he and the Democratic Party committed Fraud, claiming that counters were purposely ignoring Republican votes. However on January 6, 2021 the Electoral College was certified for Biden. This caused Trump Supporters, as well as some far-right activists rioted and later broke into the capitol, however this soon ended. Biden's time in office didn't see much, many called Biden "Sleepy President" because he didn't do much as president.

Time of Change (2021-2024)
Many nations across the world began to change during the 2020s. In 2021, Swedish migrants claimed they were being discriminated and Islam seemed to increase in Sweden. Soon, two forces, a fascist group, and an Islamist group, dominated in Sweden, leading a start to the Swedish Civil war. 2022 saw the Swedish Fascists win the Swedish civil war against the Islamists. Indonesia dissolved into a bunch of small island states after a three year war. Japan quickly saw the rebirth of their empire due to a lot of xenophobia and Sinophobia from China and other nations. The Empire of Japan was reborn and left it's alliance with the United States and other nations. In 2022 the Republicans won big and took a majority in the house of representatives and congress. In Germany, the Alternate for Deutschland party wins in Germany, all of the sudden right-wing politics become much more prevalent in Germany. Germans also want to restore the monarchy of the Hohenzollern Dynasty, and for Germany to become a constitutional monarchy. Germany then declared Georg Fredrich, the Prince of Prussia, as the new German Emperor. The new constitutional monarchy in Germany also saw the usage of the Old German Empire flag used from 1871 to 1918. Germany's new government is described to be a constiutional monarchy and officially declared themselves an Empire. Although the behavior of their nation is still seen as negative, similar to Russia and China, the German Empire's first new chancellor was Tino Chrupalla from 2022 to 2024, and then Alexander Gauland at the start of World War III. Italy saw similar changes to that of Germany, as Italy restored it's King and became an Empire Again. Gianfranco Fini lead the pro-monarchy and Nationalist movements in Italy and soon a revolution started and Italy was transformed into an Empire. Both Germany and Italy left both NATO and the European Union and formed an alliance with Germany, a more Nationalist faction compared to NATO. NATO then renamed itself the *Allied Powers* as more members joined from across the world such as Australia, New Zealand, India, South Korea, and Vietnam, which was recently declared as a non-communist Republic. The People's Republic of China saw a rebellion against the Communist Party, this lasted from 2021 to 2024 and many small states broke away from China, however a new Federal Chinese Republic was created and many of the smaller states quickly reunited with China, expect for Taiwan which now had it's own identity as the Republic of Taiwan. Both China and Taiwan joined the Allies due to Japan. Germany and Italy decide to ally with other nations apposed to the allies and found good relations with Japan, Iran, Syria, Belarus, Pakistan and Venezuela, which all joined the Iron Powers. In Turkey, Bulgaria, and Hungary, extremely similar movements of Anti-NATO, Euroscepticism, and Nationalist occurred and turned Hungary into an Nationalist State and turned Bulgaria into a Tsardom. The Ottoman Empire also returned because of this. Bulgaria and Hungary quickly joined Germany in the Iron Powers. And a little bit later, North Korea and the Ottoman Empire joined. The world saw a surprise in late December 2022, Biden had just announced that they would withdraw from NATO to declare neutrality due to many anti-war protests.

Simeon II, returns to the Throne in Bulgaria, as it returns into a Tsardom. Africa splits up into much smaller nations, it is referred to for a couple of years as “The Continent of 400 nations.” as 400 different countries were part of it. However, At the beginning of 2024, all of these countries united into much larger countries, and soon one united country. Brazil also splits into Five nations. Czechia and Slovakia agreed to join a foreign nation for protection, however because of their fear of Russia and Germany, both ended up as part of the newly formed Austrian Empire.

The Russians had a reformation which causes the fall of Russian President Vladimir Putin, The new Russian Union is formed. After China’s massive Imperialism in many areas an economic collapse leads to many rebellion groups supported by foreign countries to attempt to declare independence. After this Germany then distances themselves from the rest of Europe in order to maintain sovereignty. Back when Germany was a member of the EU, Germany was seen as the leader of it as well as the leader of Pan-Europeanism. When Germany left Pan-Europeanists had a hard time deciding what new nation would take Germany’s place as Europe’s Largest pan-European nation. Germany’s relationship with China weakened just like their former alliance with Russia, since Germany had growing relations with yet another nation, Japan. A Minor Coup d’état occurs in France led by Imperialists who want an Empire similar to that of Germany. Only 3 days later France eliminates the coup led by French Forces, Marie Le Pen was criticized for supporting the coup. Despite this, relations between France and Germany remain soft and quite neutral until the war started, compared to the relations Germany had with other European nations such as Poland, Belgium, etc. In April 2024, China collapsed after Xi Jingping, China’s President fled his country and gave his position to someone else. Because of this China split into multiple different nations. On top of that, more independence movements in these new countries also emerged. Chrupalla decided to resign as the German Chancellor as he rejected Germany’s alliance with Japan and North Korea. This causes Alexander Gauland to become Chancellor. The U.S. still makes sure it is isolated and isolationism begins in the U.S. among both parties.

Start of War
Just a Day after NATO renames itself the Allied Powers, After a huge ship full of Austrian and Italian soldiers sank, Italy blames it on Yugoslavia and declares war. Yugoslav Soldiers were discovered to have attacked the ship. Pretty soon, many nations across the world join the conflict, with one big exception being the United States, who went neutral earlier. When W. Cass was sworn into office, he decided to make sure the nation wouldn't get involved in the new third world war. Cass's stance drew both praise and criticism from American Citizens. Germany started to see some corruption in mid 2025, however corruption sank during the War. The German invasion of Luxembourg started, as Italy, China joined the allies and Japan was still aligned with Germany. There was comparisons to the Axis Powers of World War II and the Central Powers of World War I with the Iron Powers. 2026 marked the year everything flipped in the Asian Theatre. The Empire of Japan collapsed due to rebellions and other issues, resulting in anarchy throughout parts of Southeast Asia and Japan. China saw Xi take back power and quickly made an alliance with Germany. Soon, after the invasion of Venezuela. Venezuela became the Federal Republic of Venezuela and joined the Allies. This meant only Germany, Italy, China, and Bulgaria were left. In 2027 the United States entered the war due to finding out about China’s plan to go to war with The United States. Many people in Germany felt like the nation was drifting away from their Monarchist National Conservative views the Empire once had and was slowly drifting more towards the far-right.