What is the exact date of World War 3? And Which are the participants?
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World war III has yet to happen
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November 20 according to a article on wikipedia
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For the US?  The Civil War.\nFor the world as a whole: WWII
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The moment their Emperor told 'em to.  Incredible discipline!  Mid-August, 1945.\n\n~EDIT~\nYou wanted the exact date, hm?  I think it was Aug. 14.  Why don't you just look it up?
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I hate to tell you, but World War III began on September 11, 2001.\nThere is a war going on for the hearts and minds of the world's peoples. You cannot reason with terrorists, you cannot bargain with terrorists, and you cannot defeat terrorism unless you are dedicated and vigilant. Make no mistake about it, there are terrorists in the world, they have one goal in mind, the destruction of the western world. Terrorists do care how compassionate you are, or how much you hate war. In fact, they think you are stupid and weak for holding those opinions. It has been made clear time and again by them, that their goal is convert us, and if they can't convert us then they will kill us. People need to wake up and realize that we are in a World War, and in the end it is going to be us or them. Each of us has too make choices about what side we will stand on for overselves. I cannot speak for you, but I am not willing to gamble with my life and future. The only good terrorist is a dead one.\n\nInteresting reading SirFranklin, and I completely agree with your assessment of Americans and freedom at the end.
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The First World War, or (before 1939) the Great War, was a world conflict lasting from August 1914 to the final Armistice on November 11, 1918. The Allied Powers (led by the United Kingdom, France and until 1917 Russia, and, after 1917, the United States) defeated the Central Powers (led by the German Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire). The war caused the collapse of four empires and a radical change in the map of Europe and the Middle East.
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World war 3 is over already.  It was called in the media as the Cold War.  There was enough shooting, although the princaples in the war never shot at one another (although they came close, ie cuban missile crisis, berlin wall circa 1963, and some others)\n\nWars don't have to be fought on the battlefield, and there is definitely a winner.  The west won that one because of their ideas of freedom and democracy (France dosn't count)\n\nAs for world war 4, we are in the midst of it now.  The enemy is different, and the fighting is different.  This is a war against that peaceful religion of Islam.  It is more dangerous than any other war because of the nature of the fighting.  These "holy warriers" are nothing but cowards willing to kill and maim innocent people (shooting children in the back as in chechnia, beheading those kidnapped in Iraq, "suicide bombings" killing whoever is nearby, and so forth)\n\nSo, world war 4 is on, and only We can win it.  We need to support our soldiers and sailors, and take the fight to the cowards who are attacking us.  Send them to those 72 virgins and let God sort them out.
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World War II, also, The Second World War, or WWII, was the global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. World War II was the largest and deadliest war in history.\n\nThe war began between Germany and the Allies. Germany was later joined by Italy, Japan, and others, jointly known as the Axis. The Allies at first were made up of Poland, the United Kingdom, France, and others. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and in December, Japan attacked the United States. China, which had been at war with Japan since the mid-1930s, also joined the Allies, as eventually did a number of other countries.\n\nItaly surrendered to and then joined the Allies in late 1943. Germany surrendered to the Allies in May of 1945. The war ended on 2 September 1945 with the formal surrender of Japan.\n\nApproximately 62 million people died in the war. Most were civilians, as a result of the large-scale aerial bombing of cities, disease, starvation, and genocide (see the Holocaust). It is guessed that the Soviet Union suffered around 23 million deaths, and that China suffered about 10 million. Poland suffered the most deaths in proportion to its population of any country, losing 5.6 million out of a pre-war population of 34.8 million.\n\nThe war was responsible for the re-drawing of national boundaries and the creation of new nations, the end of western colonialism, and the beginning of the Cold War. [1]\n\nAfter World War II, Europe was informally partitioned into Western and Soviet spheres of influence. Western Europe largely aligned as NATO, and Eastern Europe largely as the Warsaw pact. There was a fundamental shift in power from Western Europe and the British Empire to the new superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, with significant boundary changes and displacement of people as the Soviet Union's borders shifted westwards.\n\nIn Asia, the United States' military occupation of Japan led to Japan's democratization. China's civil war continued through and after the war, resulting eventually in the establishment of the People's Republic of China. The former colonies of the European powers, such as India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, began their road to independence.\n\nFinally, the war saw a number of newly developed weapons that were used against either military and civilian targets. Atomic weapons, long range missiles, jet aircraft, and radar, are only a few of many wartime inventions that changed the nature of future conflict.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WW_2
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World War II, also, The Second World War, or WWII, was the global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. World War II was the largest and deadliest war in history.\n\nThe war began between Germany and the Allies. Germany was later joined by Italy, Japan, and others, jointly known as the Axis. The Allies at first were made up of Poland, the British Commonwealth, France, and others. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and in December, Japan attacked the United States. China, which had been at war with Japan since the mid-1930s, also joined the Allies, as eventually did a number of other countries.\n\nItaly surrendered in September 1943, Germany in May 1945. The surrender of Japan marked the end of the war, on September 2, 1945.\n\nIt is possible that up to 62 million people died in the war; estimates vary greatly. Most were civilians who died as a result of disease, starvation, genocide, and the aerial bombing of cities. Estimates place deaths in the Soviet Union at around 23 million, while China suffered about 10 million. Poland suffered the most deaths in proportion to its population of any country, losing approximately 5.6 million out of a pre-war population of 34.8 million (16%).\n\nThe war was responsible for the re-drawing of national boundaries and the creation of new nations, the end of western colonialism, and the beginning of the Cold War. [1]\n\nAfter World War II, Europe was informally split into western and Soviet spheres of influence. Western Europe largely aligned as NATO, and Eastern Europe largely as the Warsaw pact. There was a fundamental shift in power from Western Europe and the British Empire to the new superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.\n\nIn Asia, the United States' military occupation of Japan led to Japan's democratization. China's civil war continued through and after the war, resulting eventually in the establishment of the People's Republic of China. The former colonies of the European powers began their road to independence.\n\nKey alliances are formed\nOn September 1, the German invasion of Poland began World War II. Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand all declared war on Germany on September 3. Nepal, Newfoundland, Tonga, South Africa and Canada followed suit within days. On September 17, the Soviets invaded Poland from the East. The following year, the USSR annexed the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) together with parts of Romania, and attacked Finland. The German-Soviet agreement was brought to an end by the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941.\n\nThe United States of America joined the Allies following the attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. The Declaration by United Nations, on January 1, 1942, officially united 26 nations as Allies. (The Declaration also formed the basis for the United Nations.) The informal Big 3 alliance of the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and the United States emerged in the latter half of the war, and their decisions determined Allied strategy around the world.\n\n\nDates of joining Allies\n Poland: 1939, 1 September \n United Kingdom: 1939, 3 September \n Australia: 1939, 3 September \n New Zealand: 1939, 3 September \n France: 1939, 3 September \n Nepal: 1939, 4 September \n Newfoundland: 1939, 4 September \n Tonga: 1939, 4 September \n South Africa: 1939, 6 September \n Canada: 1939, 10 September \n Denmark: 1940, 9 April \n Norway: 1940, 9 April \n Belgium: 1940, 10 May \n Luxembourg: 1940, 10 May \n Netherlands: 1940, 10 May \n Free France: 1940, 18 June \n Greece: 1940, 28 October \n Kingdom of Yugoslavia: 1941, 6 April \n Soviet Union: 1941, 22 June \n Tannu Tuva: 1941, 25 June until 1944, 11 October \n Panama: 1941, 7 December \n Philippines: 1941, 7 December \n Costa Rica: 1941, 8 December \n Dominican Republic: 1941, 8 December \n El Salvador: 1941, 8 December \n Haiti: 1941, 8 December \n Honduras: 1941, 8 December \n Nicaragua: 1941, 8 December \n United
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There's a pretty detailed list of events in the Pacific\ntheater for WW2 at reference #1.  However, it begins\nwith 1941.\n\nAnswers.com has a summary of the Pacific portion of WWII\nwhere they explain many events which lead up to the war\n(covering the period before 1941), followed by an \nexplicit list of events from 1941 on.\n\nThere's a history of WW2 at reference #2, and if you look\nfor the heading: "East Asia and the Pacific", it lists\nseveral specific events between 1937 and 1941 which\nwere related to the war (ie. Japan's attack on  China\non July 7, 1937; the Battle of Shanghai; the signing of\nthe Tripartite Pact on 27 September, 1940, etc).
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well world war three would probably start because of america and it be something like the whole world vs. the united states the result earth is blown into oblivion
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I am honestly of the opinion that the first major shot has already been fired in World War III and all that is going on right now are skirmishes leading up to the first major battle.  There will and can't truly be any winners in this war, we are all going to lose and lose big.
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June 6, 1944 Normandy, France\n\nedit: \nyep, December 7, 1941 December 7, 1941 December 7, 1941 December 7, 1941 December 7, 1941 December 7, 1941
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There will not be a WW3 as the defintion of WW1 and 2 is that they were the 1st and second World Wars in the 20th Century, we are now in the 21st Century!  I don't think anything like that will happen again, the stakes are too high now with nuclear weapons.  If it did happen there would not be the same community survival spirit due to the selfishness of modern society.  I however wish we still had the grit and determination along with community spirit wichi existed during both World Wars.\n\nTo answer the question, if there were another big War like WW2 I would do what I could to survive and support my countrys efforts (unless we are the bad ones in which case to hell with survival, I'd be in the resistance!).
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It already did start -- over 60 years ago!\n\nVery, very generally, I suppose most would say that it began when hitler invaded Poland in September 1939.  It isn't quite that simple, and many factors occurred that led up to that act, but that's the accepted answer for when it actually began.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II
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No, 9/11 was the start of world war three. Iraq is just a chapter in the war on terroeist