Fourth World War (HSE)

The Fourth World War was the international conflict that involved most of the world's countries from 2004 to 2010. The War marked the end of the Detente, an era of relative cooperation between the Soviet Union and western powers, a period that had begun in 1994, in the Rwandan Intervention.

Prelude to War
At the end of the Soviet invasion of the Middle East, the Soviet Union and its allies and the Confederate States of America and its allies. The two power blocs were already at odds to due vastly differing ideologies, and it would take only a spark to set the powder keg of international relations off.

In 2004, the Soviet Union announced the nations under its occupation would be reformed as satellite states under communist governments. The newly elected Confederate president, Mike Huckabee, a replacement for outgoing president Gary Bauer, decried the Soviet Union as "empire building. Despite this, Soviet premier Gennady Yanayev announced he would be continuing with the plan, backed by hardliners such as Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin.

In 2004, in Cairo, United Arab Republic, Confederate occupation soliders Timothy Davis and Robert Breckinridge through grenades into a Soviet garrison outside the city, a crime motivated by political beliefs. This action was decried by the Soviet Union and its puppet states