The Armistice of Compiegne was the agreement that ended the fighting on the Western Front of the First World War. It was signed in a railway carriage in the forest of Compiegne, in France, by the Allied commander, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, and a German delegation led by Matthias Erzberger, and came into effect at eleven o'clock in the morning. Germany agreed to evacuate occupied territory, hand over large quantities of weapons and give up its fleet, while the Allied blockade continued until a peace treaty was signed. The armistice was followed by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. In 1940 Hitler made the French sign their surrender in the same railway carriage.
Before and after
- from November 1918 to March 1920Hungarian–Romanian War
- from 1 November 1918 to 17 July 1919Polish–Ukrainian War
- from 9 November 1918 to 1 January 1933Weimar Republic
- from 11 November 1918 to 11 September 1939Interwar period
- 11 November 1918Armistice of Compiègne
- from 12 November 1918 to 10 September 1919Republic of German-Austria
- from 16 November 1918 to 5 July 1945Second Polish Republic
- from 18 November 1918 to 1 March 1919Soviet westward offensive of 1918–1919
- from 28 November 1918 to 3 January 1920Estonian War of Independence
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- 1919Paris Peace Conference
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