The stabbing of Salman Rushdie (Page 2/2) Notorio AUG 18, 07:02 PM quote Originally posted by rinselberg: The League of Nations couldn't have stopped the Great War (later to be known as World War One) and the United Nations couldn't have stopped World War Two, other than retroactively, by going backwards in time and changing the course of the history that had already been lived and recorded. The "Time Travel" thing... Doh, you are right. I haven't ranted on this topic for a long time, so I am shifted in time by one war: the League of Nations (founded in 1920) couldn't stop WW2 and the United Nations (founded in 1945) couldn't stop Korea, Vietnam, etc. Any hope that it can stop WW3?