AMERICAN IMPERIALISM 1890 1919
END OF WWI
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Just after 5am
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Just after 6am
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Just after 7am
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Just after 11am
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Detailed explanation-1: -At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France.
Detailed explanation-2: -At 5 a.m. on Nov. 11, the armistice was agreed upon. Marshal Foch sent word to Allied commanders that “Hostilities will be stopped on the entire front beginning at 11 o’clock, November 11th (French hour).
Detailed explanation-3: -The Armistice with Germany was agreed to come into effect at 11am to allow time for the news to reach combatants. However, fighting continued in several places during and after that time, including on the Western Front.
Detailed explanation-4: -The First World War was fought from 1914 to 1918.
Detailed explanation-5: -World War I or the First World War, (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history.