"From the mud of the Great War came the the greatest force for peace."
The Great War lasted less than two years. but its horrors would inspire an entire generation. The first Christmas Truce of 1914 brought a temporary pause to the needless bloodshed between the forces of the Central Powers and the Allies. High command ordered that if any soldier repated what had happened, they would be tried for treason.
But when the snow began to fall in 1915, most soldiers simply disregarded it. From the trenches, across no man's land, the two armies sang hymns once again on that holiest of nights. When the sun crossed the sky, illuminating the mud strewn fields of brutality, the soldier's collectively lost the will to fight. One by one, the soldier crawled from their holes, their trenches, their safe havens, and crossed to embrace their enemy. And when the sky began to darken, the men refused to go back.
As word spread of the mutiny, soldiers up and down the Western Front put down their rifles and did the same. The soldiers, tired of a war that seemed to only be fought by them, turned on their officers, capturing and arresting them. By January of 1916, the Christmas Mutiny numbered in the thousands as the armies refused to fight one another. When the politicians in all of the belligerent nations condemned this and threatened to try them all with treason, the revolting armies bade each other good bye and did an about face and began to march in the direction of their respective capitals. The governments panicked at the the sight. Instead of violently overthrowing the governments, the soldiers instead staged a non violent protest by surrounding the capital buildings. The nations of Germany, France, Austria Hungary, Britain, and the other major powers on the Western Front found that they had no large armies willing to fight. Faced with pressure from the armies, which could potentially become very much less pacifistic, the governments of the world agreed to a cease fire in March of 1916. Once the war was over, the veterans came to believe that an organization should be formed to prevent large wars from consuming the world. The nations needed a league to keep the world safe. In May of 1916, at the behest of the bleeding hearts of the world, and the veterans who bleed for it, the belligerent nations came together to form the League For Peace. Every country that had fought was given a seat, as were many countries that had stayed neutral.
In the words of the first Prime Minister of the Indian Federation, Mahatma Gandhi, the League For Peace had "Brought peace in our time."