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  2. World War III - Wikipedia

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    World War III (abbreviated WWIII or WW3) or the Third World War are the names given to a hypothetical global conflict subsequent to World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945). It is widely assumed that such a conflict would surpass the prior world wars in both scope and destruction. Some have applied the term to limited conflicts ...

  3. Axis powers - Wikipedia

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    The Axis powers, [nb 1] originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis [1] and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies. Its principal members were Nazi Germany, the Kingdom of Italy and the Empire of Japan.

  4. Geneva Conventions - Wikipedia

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    This article states that the Geneva Conventions apply to all the cases of international armed conflict (IAC), where at least one of the warring nations has ratified the Conventions. Primarily: The Conventions apply to all cases of declared war between signatory nations. This is the original sense of applicability, which predates the 1949 version.

  5. World war - Wikipedia

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    A world war is an international conflict that involves most or all of the world's major powers. Conventionally, the term is reserved for two major international conflicts that occurred during the first half of the 20th century, World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945), although some historians have also characterised other global conflicts as world wars, such as the Nine Years ...

  6. Cuban Missile Crisis - Wikipedia

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    The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis ( Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis ( Russian: Карибский кризис, romanized :Karibskiy krizis ), was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy ...

  7. Kosovo War - Wikipedia

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    The Kosovo War ( Albanian: Lufta e Kosovës, Serbian: Косовски рат, Kosovski rat) was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. [56] [57] [58] It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the ...

  8. Switzerland during the World Wars - Wikipedia

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    Switzerland (yellow) found itself surrounded by members of opposing alliances. Swiss officers' barracks in the Umbrail Pass during World War I. Switzerland maintained a state of armed neutrality during the first world war. However, with two of the Central Powers ( Germany and Austria-Hungary) and two of the Entente Powers ( France and Italy ...

  9. Operation Unthinkable - Wikipedia

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    Operation Unthinkable was the name given to two related possible future war plans developed by the British Chiefs of Staff Committee against the USSR during 1945. The plans were never implemented. The creation of the plans was ordered by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in May 1945 and developed by the British Armed Forces ' Joint ...

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