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- Recently, the French Consulate led the Armistice Day observance with ceremonies in Puducherry and Karaikal to mark the conclusion of WWI in 1918.
About Armistice Day
- Also known as Veterans Day.Â
- Commemorated every year on 11 November.
- Significance: To mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I.Â
- Took effect at eleven in the morning—the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918.Â
- A formal peace agreement was reached only when the Treaty of Versailles was signed the following year.
World War I (WWI)
- Lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
- WW I was fought between the Allied Powers and the Central Powers.
- Allied Powers: France, Russia, and Britain. The United States also fought on the side of the Allies after 1917.
- Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria.
- On June 28, 1919, World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
Source: TH
