DBWI: Avert World War IV?

Some people say that the Treaty of Damascus that ended WWIII made a fourth war inevitable, just like how Versailles led to WWII and Paris led to WWIII. The factors - economic troubles across Europe and Asia, political dissenters in the Eastern Bloc, radical parties in France and Britain, racial tensions in the US, religious schisms in the Middle East - are myriad, and caused such a chaotic decade that I can't even imagine getting around it.

What could have gone differently to prevent WWIV? Preventing the partition of Poland? Averting the rise of the Front Syndicaliste in France? Wallace defeating Reagan in 1972? I can't see any one way to avert WWIV that isn't pure ASB
 
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By the time the Fourth World War happened, France swinging hard to the left was pretty inevitable. IMO, the only way to stop it was to have better labour relations in Europe. More specifically, you would need the Years of Discontent in the UK to be settled peacefully instead of poking the unions and organized labour with a stick until there are massive riots (Thanks William Whitelaw, what a great PM you turned out to be). The UK Labour Riots were what galvanized the French Far Left to organize so rapidly for fear that they would get the same treatment. If they hadn't organized, then the remnants of the de Gaullists just might have pulled off a Hail Mary and get Jacques Chaban-Delmas elected instead of the Syndies.
 
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