AH Challenge Create the War that really ends all Wars

Is it possible to Create a war that kills more people than the world wars combined (100m)?

War start is from 1910 onwards.(a Greatly extended WW1 counts)

POD can be from 1850 onwards(Changes to the American Civil war may help.)

No nuclear weapons. Chemical and bioweapons ok.

Non combat deaths count. (disease, genocide, famine)
 
Ugh. If you're opening the door to bioweapons, you might just manage that. There are some very nasty biological agents available, and if they mutated and kept spreading... yowza. You won't wipe out humanity, but you could kill an awful lot of people and break down the structures that keep society functioning at it's present level, which would kill even more. Does it count if the only fighting is low-level skirmishes?
 
POD: Wilson's stroke is fatal. US doesn't enter WW1.

And it goes horribly wrong!

Another Hundred Years War, except it spreads beyond Europe, and the combatant empires are ripped apart with the ongoing war...

In the Congo alone, vicious efforts to isolate Belgium and her allies from Congolese resources results in the grisly deaths of millions, even more than those inflicted by the Belgians themselves. "Sabotage" of processes to procure rubber et al boils down to chemical warfare against the local population.

Horrifically, attacks in kind are made to retaliate, and even colonies that don't provide strategic resources or valued soldiers are hit hard by vicious WMD attacks.

With no agenda save for the crass deprivation of resources, these incredible acts of genocide take place around the world.

The Indian subcontinent is savaged. Large cities are struck by attacks on "choke-points" like water, transport infrastructure, and ways of bringing in food. By the 1960s, the Great Himalayan Watershed is riddled with poisons aimed at undercutting the British Empire. The subcontinent becomes a hellhole struck by plague, famine and desperate (and at times very harsh) efforts to restore order.

Saboteurs sneak into Canada to start conflagrations in the forests.

In the United States of America, both political parties can agree on the vital need for Fortress America to protect itself from the "war-choked swine" across the ocean. This agenda manifests itself as a tight embargo against Great War combatants and a very pro-active Coast Guard. Security at utility providers and resource harvesting and processing points is beefed up every year. Progress in society as we know it is put on the rocks, unions don't get terribly far, women have to fight very hard to even get suffrage seriously considered with America "besieged" by the bloodthirsty imperialists across the ocean.
 
-Officers of Unit 731 releases all known samples days before surrender is to occur, starting in Japan itself, Russia, and China with thoughts of national seppuku in their head.
-Tuberculosis, Typhoid, Cholera, Dysentery, and Bubonic Plague run rampant in crowded ruins with filthy water conditions. Infections on Russian trains spread the contagion to Europe, by the time the USSR realizes the extent of their exposure to an intentional biological attack the first passengers are already in Leningrad
-Continental Europe soon succumbs to half a dozen resistant and virulent diseases not seen in a generation as sanitation and food preperatory facilities are few and far between
-India, Burma, and southeastern Asia are also hit soon afterwards
-By end of 1945 over 25 million around the world are dead and the US is screening all ships in and out of contamination zones, Hawaii is affected but miraculously the continental US is spared
-Finnish border sealed with refugees forced to turn back or shot on sight, Sweden and Norway give tacit assistance for the sake of survival
-Swiss and Spanish borders also sealed
-South America restricts trade with contaminated nations
-Australia and New Zealand permit only their own military vessels to return to port while trade is done entirely through the United States
-By the summer of 1946 there are over 150 million dead and many more infected, Africa becomes a site of rampant infection that will take generations to clean up. US declares Hawaii decontaminated and moves to do the same for Kyushu, Shikoku, and Hokkaido with Honshu needing longer. France works on restoring infrastructure but loses over 15% of her population and local trade in affected areas and global trade slows down dramatically for fear of infection
-By summer of 1950 much of the world is decontaminated though there are 500 million fewer people in the world, mostly from Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. USSR loses over 10 million people mostly in Europe, her refocused efforts into biological research make her a dominant force in the field of medicine in coming decades
-Anyone involved in Unit 731 is suspect and many are executed simply for guilt by association, worldwide treaty banning biological weapons will be signed in 1953 in Seoul, Republic of Korea the day after the country is reunified
 
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