Armistice

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 was a major example of an armistice which was not 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.

Important armistices in history

Armistice Day is still celebrated in many countries on the anniversary of that armistice; alternatively 11 November, or a Sunday near to it, may still be observed as a Remembrance Day.

In the United States of America, November 11 is observed as Veterans' Day.

Other armistices in history

* 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 of Mudanya between Turkey, Italy, France and Britain and later Greece, 1922.

* World War II

* 1949 Armistice Agreements between Israel and its neighbors Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.

* Korean War Armistice, July 1953.

* 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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