Third Global War (French Trafalgar, British Waterloo)

The Third Global War, usually abbreviated GWIII, was a world spanning military conflict between the forces of the National Socialist Alliance, led by, and  and the Grand Alliance, headed by  the , , and. The war was the most destructive war fought in the history of mankind, with almost every nation on Earth being involved, and at least 125 million men and women called to fight, with nearly 70 million casualties, which includes the victims of the Holocaust perpretraed by the National Socialist nations: the Jews in Germany, the Irish in Great Britain and the Blacks in the Confederacy, killed due to their claimed "inferiority", as well as the use of nuclear weapons on multiple sites in Europe and Asia.

At the end of the war, Europe, North and South America and large section of Asia had been left in ruin. The French, hoping that no such war could ever happen again, annexed the majority of Western Europe, including neutral Switzerland. The was formed in St. Petersburg, and its primary goals was to prevent war of this magnitude from ever starting again. However, the victory of France, Russia, Japan, Brazil and the US, as well as the many smaller allies, had leader to a polarization of the world in three armed camps: the of Democracies lead by the United States and Russia; the Sorelist dominated  controlled by France, and associated with by Japan; and the unofficial, composing of dictatorial South American regimes that wished to not be involved with either of the other two alliances.

Background
In many ways, the Third Global War was simply a continuation of the Second: the alliances on both sides were pretty much the same, and it was only ideology that seriously changed in France, Britain, Germany, Argentina and the Confederacy; the first becoming Sorelist, and the last thee turning National Socialist, and all of them in the late 1920s-early 1930s.

France was still reeling from their almost defeat in the previous war, as they lost more troops per capita than any other nation. The Imperial "democracy" that was slowly formed by Napoleon II in the 1840s became increasingly polarized between right wing nationalists and left wing Marxists. It was only when leader Philip Petain was named the new prime minister in 1932 did the increasingly bitter battles in the nation were ended in favor of the Sorelists. Petain quickly set up a dictatorship, imprisoning opponents and centralizing power in his hands, but he also began to put the nation back to work with massive state-sponsored projects and subsidizes to major industry. By the outbreak of the war, France was among the nations with the lowest unemployment in the world. Had the war not broken out in 1940, the nation would have been on its feet by 1945 many claim.

The Rise of National Socialism
In the defeated countries of the Second Global War, as foreign armies occupied large sections of their land, many extremist parties on both sides rose up to try to take advantage of the chaos that the defeat, economic depression, hyper inflation and the haphazard military demobilization had left. It was especially difficult in smaller states such as Argentina, which saw some of their richest, most industrial developed land taken away. By 1923, the former Marxist Nicolás Repetto took power, forming an ideology with a blend of left wing state controlled socialism with strong nationalist undertones. Most major industries were taken over, farms collectivized and most land taken over by the state, rights to free speech and assembly were taken away, and opponents and disedents were either forced into exile, imprisoned or out right killed. In return, Repetto gave the people work and a National goal: to avenge the defeat of the Second Global War. Other countries soon became National Socialist: Italy under Benito Mussolini in 1925; Germany with Ernst Rohm and the Confederacy under Sam Rayburn in 1935; and Great Britain in 1936 with the Imperial-Socialist Party. Canada became a battleground between "Natso" Ontario and Sorelist Quebec, while Southern China came under the strong armed rule of Lou Tseng-Tsiang during the Chinese Civil War and the Japanese military intervention in 1934.

While the National Socialist parties formed an alliance in 1934, the democracies were struggling to cope. The Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed in 1931 due to the many nationalities of the Empire asserting independence, and the financial burden the Stock Market Crash put on the struggling empire. The US and Russia were becoming increasingly isolationist: under Presidents and  the US focused namely on the settling of the Oregon Territory they won in 1916, while Russia was dealing with the aftermath of another  Bolshevik coup. Tensions with increasingly dictatorial France were increasingly strained, and all three condemned Japan for invading China in 1934.