Politics
Armistice
An agreement to halt fighting, falling short of a peace treaty. The armistice with Germany took effect at 11 a.m. on 11 November 1918 and was renewed several times until the Treaty of Versailles came into force.
Mentioned in
- Chapter III The War of Movement Overview§9 The War Spreads: Turkey, the Seas and the Colonies§10 The Christmas Truce and the Cost of 1914
- Chapter VI The Year of Revolutions Overview§9 Peace Moves, the October Revolution and the Armistice in the East
- Chapter VII The Last Gamble Overview§1 Wilson's Fourteen Points§2 Brest-Litovsk: Peace in the East§5 The Americans Arrive, and the Second Marne§8 The Collapse of Germany's Allies§9 Germany's Revolution§10 The Eleventh Hour: Compiègne
- Chapter VIII The Reckoning and the Remaking §5 Red and White: Russia's Civil War and the Battle for Warsaw§6 Germany's Troubled Birth: From Weimar to the Putsch§8 Mandates, Sèvres and the Making of Turkey§10 Remembering the Dead, and the Road to 1939
- Chapter IX In the Trenches §7 Shell Shock, Courts-Martial and the Men Who Were Shot§10 Other Fronts, Other Trenches
- Chapter X The Machinery of War §4 Tanks: From Landships to Whippets
- Chapter XI War on Waves and Wings §2 The Distant Blockade and the Hunger Winters§4 The U-Boat War in Four Phases§9 Zeppelins, Gothas and the Birth of the RAF§10 Carriers, Tondern and the Scuttling at Scapa Flow
- Chapter XII The Home Fronts §2 Conscription and Its Politics§4 Food, Rationing and Hunger§6 Dissent, Strikes and the Road to Revolution§9 Culture, Art and the Making of Memory
- Chapter XIII A World on Fire Overview§3 Lettow-Vorbeck's Guerrilla War in East Africa§5 The Ottoman Fronts: Caucasus, Mesopotamia, Sinai and Persia§6 The Empires' Soldiers§10 Legacies: Nationalism After the War