User:HoM/World War III (Flashback)

World War III, also known as the Third World War, World War Three, , and/or the Nuclear War, was a large scale conflict occuring during the early part of the twenty-first century. It was the premier conflict of the United Republic of North America, which wouldn't possess all of its member states until the war's end. After eight years of conflict, military casualties totaled nearly thirty million and civilian at approximately twenty-four million. It would end in a strategic Allied victory and would eventually lead up to the forming of the UNSC.

Overview
The war consisted of multiple theaters of battle, including:
 * Western European
 * Western Russian/Eastern European
 * Western American
 * Eastern American
 * South American
 * West African
 * South African
 * Middle Eastern (including Somalia)

The combatants of the war consisted of three alliances: the Alliance, which consists of traditional "Allied" members from previous world wars along with multiple African nations seeking order; the Convergence, which is lead by forceful Communist parties from Russia, China, Greece, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Canada, and multiple others; and the Crusad Rebellion, a massive rebel force consisting of rebels from obliging Islamic groups, southeast Asia, Israel, Australia, and South Africa.

Invasion of Hawai'i and Japan
In early 2018, an emergency conference was held by a number of nations to discuss usage of new fuel cell engines and how to manage remaining oil reserves. However, an outraged Saudi Arabia nearly began war at the conference after threatening to embargo the newly formed United Republic of North America, which at the time only consisted of the United States and Mexico. URNA representatives then left the conference and refused to comply until both sides had calmed down, though the latter would never occur. The situation was not at all helped when China announced that it too would cut ties with the URNA, stating their economy would be better in the future.

In August of the same year, an invasion of Japan and Hawai'i was conducted by the first nations of the Convergence: China and Saudi Arabia. Within fourteen hours, URNA ally Japan surrendered as they faced another nuclear assault by the Convergence. An emergency defence fleet had caught wind of this, however, and reinforced Hawai'ian defences, which then numbered at approximately eighty-five advanced warships led by three supercarriers. The much larger Convergence force was quickly destroyed, though the carriers were lost, including one of two existing Alliance-class Supercarriers.

OPEC cuts ties
During the battle for Japan, forces of the OPEC nations eradicated any trace of American companies, which created great outrage and caused many nations to join the Alliance after this unprovoked act. The fourteen-state European Union also became a full ally to the URNA began a campaign to eradicate Convergence chapters in Europe.

Chinese/Vietnamese Invasion
With the "sleeping beast awakened" as media of the era said, Convergence forces dug in to protect what they had. Navies representing Chile, Brazil, the URNA, Britain, Japanese partisans and remnants, and Australia, led a full scale invasion on China with nearly two million soldiers. China attempted to fight back, but were forced to retreat anywhere from 65 to 200 miles inland within a week. Chinese government retreated to a recently conquered Mongolia under the radar of Allied forces. The Alliance, which occupied thousands of square miles of Chinese soil, dug in until supplies could arrive for a greater attack.

Attack on Communist Canada
At the same time, an Allied force rumbled into then-Communist British Columbia, which contained the Convergence's secondary capital of Vancouver with a heavily armoured force. British Columbia, which was financially backed by Convergence chapters in Russia and Argentina, had become a secret citadel that was first revealed to the Alliance by a espionage spy in a Convergence chapter in Libya.

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Joint Special Forces Attack
Meanwhile, a smaller operation was being conducted by URNA and British special forces in the Convergence stronghold of Volo, Greece. A total of sixty operatives raided and eliminated the Convergence's accumulated weapons cache and took seventeen prisoners. Greece would suffer a Communist overthrow days later after propoganda explained the URNA attacked Volo to acquire labor slaves.

By Russia
Following this, Russia, which had suffered a Communist overthrow weeks preceding the war, hastily attacked enemies in all directions, specifically the Allied advancement in China and what was once an independent Vietnam with an "all or nothing" style of assault.