AHC: Four World Wars, before the advent of (significantly destructive) WMDs

This is a slightly lazy AHC but hope you'll bear with me.
The challenge is to have massive, industrialized warfare in the 1880s, 1900s, 1920s, and 1940s (or roughly in that timeframe) that involves significant power shifts and border changes. The POD is wherever around the 19th century it seems most fit. Each period of war must last at least 3 years but no more than 10. There must be a period of lull/peace between the wars, though there may be proxy wars. After the fourth World War, a final and indisputable world order must be put in place by a (new) set of global powers, whose control of weaponised technology makes another global war essentially the end of humanity. (Similar to OTL's Cold War except multipolar)

Bonus if one of these world wars has a major theater of war in territorial North America. Super Bonus if Italy flips in all four of these world wars.
 
Well it is certainly possible in Victoria 2, I once had a game with 3 Great Wars (the 4th one took place after the conversion to HoI4).

As for it being possible in reality, I assume then 1: the world wars need to be less destructive then OTL.
And 2: you need to find a really good reason why they take place, as I can't see a government just going 'ya now those 2 destructive big wars we had a few decades ago let's do another one.' and survive. Though that might be relieved by a combination of revolutions changing the governments who made war and the last war being started by a country which was nearly unhurt by the previous wars...
 
A better administrator of Buchanan becomes POTUS in 1856, and manage to delay of some year the ACW. Prussia continue is path to German unification. When the ACW breaks out the Southern government find a way to get UK on their side. For some alliance domino the ACW and the German wars get unified in a Great War. We're getting something like USA vs *CSA*/UK and Prussia/Italy(/Russia?) vs France/Austria. I don't know if the Prussian block is going to fight alongside USA or UK. Than a bad peace create the conditions for a new war. Social Darwinism is going to take great importance in WWII or WWIII.
 
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For the first two, I'm expecting the nature to warfare to be driven by great powers fighting amongst themselves for gains in Africa/Balkans/Middle East; for the later two, I think it'll be between the established powers and the emerging ones who did not gain much in these areas, i.e. United States, Germany, Japan, Italy, Russia, etc.
 
technically from a Eurocentric view point..
Napoleonic wars - not everything was connected, however war of 1812 falls in this time period too.
World war 1
World war 2 would suffice

The rest of the 1800's I'm just not sure on if there is enough to bring the USA into it or have massive colonial battles in North America/South America
 
You know I have this idea for a TL that involves WWIII and IV coming to fruition sometime way after the US and UN win the Korean War but unfortunately they both involve WMDs to an extent so....*shrugs*.
 
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