WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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Christmas Truce
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Bastille Day
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Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday
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Armistice was signed
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Detailed explanation-1: -On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, 1918, fighting in WWI officially stopped after Germany signed an armistice agreement with Allies earlier in the day. In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation that changed the federal holiday’s name from Armistice Day to Veterans Day.
Detailed explanation-2: -’On the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month, we will remember them. ‘ Remembrance Day marks the end of the First World War. We remember all of those who have given their lives, and those who have been injured physically and mentally by conflict.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Armistice was the ceasefire that ended hostilities between the Allies and Germany on the 11th of November 1918. The Armistice did not end the First World War itself, but it was the agreement which stopped the fighting on the Western Front while the terms of the permanent peace were discussed.
Detailed explanation-4: -Remembrance Day (11 November) is a national holiday in France and Belgium. It commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect at 11:00 am-the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month."