World War III

Previous	World War II (Milky way galaxy)
Concurrent	Second Great Galactic War ("Star Wars" galaxy)
World War III
Beginning	Semptember 23rd, 1983 (33 ArS)
End	April 19th, 1986 (33 ArS)
Place	Earth
Outcome	U.S./Jedi victory Collapse of the Soviet Union Devastation of both U.S and Soviet territory
Combatants
United States U.S Armed Forces U.S. Army U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Navy U.S Air Force U.S. Coast Guard Jedi Order (secretly)
Soviet Union† Soviet Armed Forces† Strategic Missile Troops† Soviet Army† Soviet Air Defence Forces† Soviet Air Forces† Soviet Navy† Sith Empire Reborn (covertly)
Commanders
President Ronald Reagan Military Service Departments Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger Secretary of the Navy John Lehman Secretary of the Air Force Verne Orr Secretary of the Army John Marsh Joint Chiefs of Staff General John Vessey General John Wickham General Paul Kelley Admiral James Watkins General Charles Gabriel Lieutenant General Emmett Walker Unified Combatant Command Admiral James Gracey General Robert Kingston General Bernard W. Rogers Admiral William J. Crowe Jedi High Council
General Secretary Yuri Andropov† General Secretary Konstantin Chernenko† General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov Marshal Kirill Moskalenko Marshal Pavel Batitsky Marshal Sergey Sokolov Marshal Sergey Akhromeyev Marshal Vasily Petrov Minister of Defence Dmitriy Ustinov Sith Emperor Palpatine

World War III (1983—1986) was the third global conflict on the planet Earth—the first in 38 years—and its most devastating.