| An armistice is the effective end of a war, when the warring parties agree to stop
fighting. The most famous armistice, the one still meant when people say simply "The Armistice", is the one at the end of
World War I, on November
11, 1918. 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 Remembrance Day.
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
armistice of 1953 in the [[Korean War]], for famous instance, has not yet been followed by a peace treaty.
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