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Welcome to the eHistory Channel I’m your host CrayolaButthole Jr. Today’s special is on World War III and how if forever changed the eWorld. Let’s take a look.


World War III
Time: July 13- November 19, 2009
Place: Worldwide
Victor: ATLANTIS

World War III, also known as the Great War of 2009, or by its PEACE code name (for the American theatre) Operation PIG MAC™, was the third global conflict in the New World, between PEACE GC and the ATLANTIS successor alliances of EDEN and Fortis. It began on July 13th, 2009 when France invaded Canada. Most of the fighting took place within North America, specifically within the United States and Canada, however there was also fighting in Scandinavia and Spain. The war ended on November 19, 2009 with the official dissolution of PEACE. The result is debatable given that PEACE lost most of the territories it completely or partially conquered due to either peace treaties or successful resistance efforts by the occupied nations; however in general the PEACE nations emerged without losing any of the land they held before the war. The end of this war, marked by the dissolution of PEACE, set the stage for World War IV.

USA Attacked
In only a few weeks time, Indonesia had blazed a trail of destruction through the south of the United States, conquering New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Louisiana, Oregon, Oklahoma, Mississippi and another large prize, Texas. In early August, Indonesia had reached Russian and Portuguese territory, while the US was left to a few states, Florida and a few in New England.

With regained initiative, American and EDEN forces were able to liberate Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana from Indonesia, but the newly liberated regions shared borders with Russian owned regions who promptly attacked. Due to a bug in the game which caused trouble with the war module, the war between Russia and the US was suspended, allowing the US to retake New Mexico, Mississippi, Arizona and Nevada. Despite war being reinstated between Russia and the US, Russia was actively being blocked by Canada from attacking the US. Portugal as well had signed an independent peace treaty with the US and had returned all its occupied territories.

California had become an Indonesian stronghold within America, with a large transplanted Indonesian population and both a Q5 hospital and defense system. If Indonesia wasn't able to defend California, it would certainly lose the war. Many PEACEkeepers from allied countries arrived in Indonesia to help defend California. The battle was hard fought, finally with Indonesia coming out victorious after heavy tanking operations. Indonesia was unable to reconquer the US though. Without Portugal and Russia distracting the US, Indonesia couldn't win any states alone. So instead a stalemate ensured, where Indonesia kept up constant attacks on the states of Nevada and Arizona to stop the US from attacking California again. For the first three days of September no land was conquered, as Indonesia and Canada continued to block the US and Russia respectively. The US hit a stroke of good luck when the Indonesian president was banned for obtaining funds illegally in the game, leading to Indonesia lapsing on its routine blocking attacks. Indonesia lost in Arizona, allowing the US to attack and conquer California, and the next day Hawaii, pushing Indonesia out of the war.

Portugal, like Russia and France, had an open war with the United States from a previous conflict dating back to January of 2009. However, like Indonesia, they did not open hostilities in the war. In fact, Portugal signed a peace treaty with Spain, a long time adversary, during the beginning of the Russian and French invasions of North America, leading some to speculate in EDEN media that Portugal would choose to remain neutral in the conflict. However, on July 25th, 2009, on the same day Indonesia attacked Hawaii, Portugal attacked Georgia. As described above, the

United States was not adequately prepared to deal with a three front war against Portugal, Russia and Indonesia, and with the backing of its numerous activated alliances, Portugal was able to conquer Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, the District of Columbia (a symbolic blow to the US, as this is where the US capital in real life is located), Arkansas, Maryland, Alabama, North Carolina, Delaware, Virginia, and South Carolina.

The war served to unify the former nations of ATLANTIS who had broken into two different alliances after the Swedish and Polish invasion of Germany, who formed under the new EDEN alliance. The Eden Mobile Corps became a highly efficient and devastating tanking unit, while the PEACE equivalent, the Peace Keepers, never really got off the ground.
PEACE Global Community suffered greatly from the war, and only a month after the war ended, member states began to leave the alliance until it became defunct and was replaced by the smaller PHOENIX alliance while the other former members of PEACE pursued different foreign policies. This fracture allowed EDEN to strike back at their enemies eventually, with Iran, Hungary and Indonesia suffering loses in Asia against the United States and France and Germany being occupied by Spain and Poland respectively.

Read more about the war on the wiki page
Sources: eRepublik Wiki

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