World War I was a big reason why World War II happened. Germany's reparation payments, feeling slighted, racist and fascist undertones that brewed over from Jewish ownership of what Hitler saw as property of "real" Germans, then declaring a policy of lebensraum, it was all adding up. Add to that the feelings of Italy in North Africa, Japan's East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, and the Commonwealth being called on to aid, and it was ripe conditions - especially for the US, the midst of the Great Depression.
World War III? Sounds like there are grievances that happened from the fallout of World War II that would be reason for a third one to start.
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