Armistice - Other Armistices in History

Other Armistices in History

  • 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, March 1918 (see Treaty of Brest-Litovsk)
    • Armistice with Bulgaria, also known as the Armistice of Solun, September 1918
    • Armistice of Mudros Between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies, October 1918
    • Austrian-Italian Armistice of Villa Giusti ended the war on the Italian front in early November 1918
    • Armistice with Germany (Compiègne), ended the First World War on 11 November 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 19 September 1944 ending the Continuation War.
  • Armistice of Trung Gia signed by France and the Viet Minh on 20 July 1954 ending the First Indochina War.
  • 1962 armistice in Algeria attempted to end the Algerian War.

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