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[[Image:German Army Surrender.jpg|thumb|250px|A [[white flag]] is traditionally used to represent a truce.]]
An '''armistice''' is when the warring parties agree to stop fighting. It is not necessarily the end of a war, but can instead be just a cease fire. It is derived from the [[Latin]] ''arma'', meaning weapons and ''statium'', meaning a stopping.
A truce or [[ceasefire]] usually refers to a temporary [[cessation of hostilities]] for an agreed limited time or within a limited area. A truce may be needed in order to negotiate an armistice.
An armistice is a ''[[modus vivendi]]'' and is not the same as a [[peace treaty]], which may take months or even years to agree on. The 1953 [[Korean War]] armistice <ref>{{cite web
|url=http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/korea/kwarmagr072753.html|accessdate=2007-01-04
|title=Text of the Korean War Armistice Agreement |date=[[July 27]], [[1953]]
|publisher=FindLaw}}</ref> is a major example of an armistice which has not yet been followed by a peace treaty.
The [[United Nations Security Council]] often imposes or tries to impose cease-fire resolutions on parties in modern conflicts. Armistices are always negotiated between the parties themselves and are thus generally seen as more binding than non-mandatory UN cease-fire resolutions in modern international law.
The key aspect in an armistice is the fact that "all fighting ends with no one surrendering".
This is in contrast to an [[unconditional surrender]], which is a surrender without conditions, except for those provided by international law. {{Fact|date=March 2008}}
==Notable armistices in history==
The most notable armistice, and the one which is still meant when people say simply "The Armistice", is the [[Armistice with Germany (Compiègne)|armistice at the end of World War I]], on [[11 November]], [[1918]], signed near [[Compiègne Forest|Compiègne]], France, and effective at the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month." <ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/armistice.htm |accessdate=2007-01-04
|title=The Armistice |date=[[1 May]] [[2004]]
|work=The War to End All Wars|publisher=FirstWorldWar.com}}</ref>
[[Armistice Day]] is still celebrated in some places on the anniversary of that armistice; alternatively [[November 11]], or a Sunday near to it, may still be observed as a [[Remembrance Day]].<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2007-01-04
|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/find_out/guides/uk/remembrance_day/newsid_2438000/2438201.stm
|title=What is Remembrance Day?|publisher=CBBC Newsround}}</ref>
Other armistices in history are:
* [[Armistice of Copenhagen]] of 1537 ended the Danish war known as the [[Count's Feud]].
* [[Armistice of Stuhmsdorf]] of 1635 between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden.
* [[Peace of Westphalia]] of 1648 that ended the [[Thirty Years' War]].
* [[World War I]]
** Armistice between Russia and the Central Powers, at Brest-Litovsk, 1917 (see [[Treaty of Brest-Litovsk]])
** [[Armistice with Bulgaria]], also known as the '''Armistice of Solun''', September 1918
** [[Armistice with Germany (Compiègne)]], 1918
** [[Austrian-Italian Armistice of Villa Giusti]] ended the First World War on the Italian front in early November 1918
** [[Armistice of Mudros]] Between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies, 1918
* [[Armistice of Mudanya]] between Turkey, Italy, France and Britain and later Greece, 1922.
* [[World War II]]
** [[Armistice with France (Second Compiègne)]], 1940
** [[Armistice of Saint Jean d'Acre]] between British forces in the Middle East and Vichy France forces in Syria, 1941
** [[Armistice with Italy]], 1943
** [[Moscow Armistice]], signed by Finland and the Soviet Union on [[September 19]], [[1944]] ending the [[Continuation War]].
** (Germany implemented an [[unconditional surrender]] at the end of the war, immediately prior to [[V-E day]])
** [[Japanese Instrument of Surrender]]
* [[1949 Armistice Agreements]] between Israel and its neighbors Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/mideast/stories/history.maps/armistice.html
|accessdate=2007-01-04|title=1949 Armistice|work=Middle East, Land of Conflict
|publisher=CNN}}</ref>
* [[Korean_War#Stalemate_.28July_1951_-_July_1953.29|Korean War Armistice]], July 1953.
* [[Armistice of Trung Gia]] signed by France and the Viet Minh on [[July 20]], [[1954]] ending the [[First Indochina War]].
* 1962 armistice in [[Algeria]] attempted to end the [[Algerian War]].
== References ==
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==External links==
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*{{cite web|url=http://www.firstworldwar.com/source/armisticeterms.htm |accessdate=2007-01-04
|title=Allied Armistice Terms, 11 November 1918
|work=The War to End All Wars |publisher=FirstWorldWar.com}}
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