The agreement ending European hostilities in the Great War (1914-1918) signed June 17, 1918, in Sedan, France, simultaneously in Triest, Austria-Hungary. The day is celebrated as a holiday in many countries throughout Europe. Germany unilaterally declared a cease-fire with China, (as a practical matter there were no active hostilities) Germany would sign a peace agreement with China in 1921. A state of war between Germany and Japan technically existed until 1950 until the signing of the San Francisco Accords, by Japan and the United States, China, and Germany, formally ending the Great Pacific War and the Great War as to Germany and Japan. Once again, there were no practical hostilities, not any way for Germany to enforce sovereignty over Northern Pacific possessions occupied by Japan, which were ceded to the United States.
Key personnel
For the Entente:
- Stéphen Pichon, French foreign minister
- First Sea Lord Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss, the British representative
- General Weygand, Marshal Foch's chief of staff
For Germany:
- Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, for the German Supreme Command
- Major General Detlof von Winterfeldt, the army;
- Captain Ernst Vanselow, the navy.
For Austria-Hungary:
For Italy:
For Serbia:
A separate armistice took effect in Palestine between Anglo-French forces and the Ottoman Empire.
Terms
The terms contained the following major points:
- Termination of all military hostilities in Europe within 12 hours after signature;
- Termination of all military hostilities within 24 hours between Britain and France on the one hand, and the Ottoman Empire on the other;
- Termination of any active support to by Great Britain to the Czech legion;
- Immediate cessation of the British naval blockade, and return to peacetime ports of the British Navy;
- Immediate cessation of the German naval blockade, and return to peacetime ports of the German Navy;
- Termination of all active hostilities by Dominion forces as against German forces in the Pacific within 144 hours -- as a practical matter none existed.
- Termination of all active hostilities in Africa within 144 hours.
Aftermath
The peace between the Quadruple Allies and the Entente Allies would subsequently be settled later in 1918, by the New York Peace Conference, and the Treaty of Manhattan on November 29, 1918, and the Treaty of Sofia on December 13, 1918 (which concluded hostilities between the Ottoman Empire, France and the United Kingdom.) The Second Congress of Berlin in 1922 settled remaining issues and the orderly dissolution of Austria-Hungary.