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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
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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You don't even need to stop at WW1. The conflicts that later became known as WW1 can be traced back hundreds of years. Things like the Ottoman invasions of the Balkans and Russian expansion played big roles. Heck, if you get right down to it, the schism of the Roman Empire has had lasting effects that played into WW1 and WW2 (I blame the Vandals!!).
British and French colonialism in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Americas also directly led to a rise if imperialism in Germany, Italy, Russia and Japan. Everything for hundreds of years has been an evolution of tit-for-tat conflicts. Where and how it started is completely arbitrary, as is the notion of a "world war". Many parts of the world don't even call the conflicts between 1914 and 1918 or 1938 and 1945 "world wars". They just look at them as a continuation and escalation of ongoing conflicts.