What is Armistice of 11 November 1918?
[[File:Armisticetrain.jpg|thumb|This photograph was taken after reaching an agreement for the armistice that ended World War I. This is Ferdinand Foch's own railway carriage and the location is in the forest of Compiègne. Foch is second from the right.]] The '''armistice treaty''' between the Allies, who fought Germany during World War I, and [[German Empire|Germany]] was signed in a railway carriage in Compiègne Forest on 11 November 1918, and marked the end of the [[World War I|First World War]] on the Western Front. Marshal Ferdinand Foch, the Allied Commander-in-chief, and Matthias Erzberger, Germany's [[representative]] were the most important persons who signed it. [[File:NYTimes-Page1-11-11-1918.jpg|right|thumb|Front page of the ''[[New York Times]]'' on Armistice Day, 11 November 1918.]] The [[Armistice]] was agreed at 5 AM on 11 November, to come into effect at 11 AM [[Paris]] time. Acting German commander [[Paul von Hindenburg]] had requested arrangements for a meeting from Ferdinand Foch via telegram on 7 November. He was under pressure of imminent revolution in [[Berlin]], [[Munich]] and elsewhere across Germany. This stopped the fighting, but it took much longer to get a complete settlement. The actual terms, largely written by Foch, included: * ending hostilities, the withdrawal of German forces to behind the [[Rhine]], *Allied occupation of the [[Rhineland]] and bridgeheads further east, the surrender of aircraft, warships, and military materiel, *the release of Allied [[prisoners of war]] and interned civilians, *eventual reparations, no release of German prisoners and no relaxation of the naval blockade of Germany. Although the armistice ended the fighting on the Western Front, it had to be prolonged three times until the [[Treaty of Versailles]]. This took effect on 10 January 1920.<ref>Czernin, Ferdinand 1964. ''Versailles, 1919''. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.</ref><ref>Leonhard, Jörn 2014. ''Die Büchse der Pandora: Geschichte des Ersten Weltkriegs'' [Pandora's Box: History of the Fi