107 years ago today, November 11, 1918 (October 8, 1918 in the lunar calendar), the First World War ended. French General Weygand (right) and Marshal Foch (standing) won a long-awaited armistice agreement from the Germans. On November 11, 1918, German government representative Erzberger and Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Coalition Forces Foch signed an armistice agreement at the Redde Station in the Compiegne Forest in northeastern France, and Germany surrendered. According to the agreement, Germany withdrew all troops from France, Belgium, Luvalu, Alsace-Lorraine and the left bank of the Rhine River within 15 days. It also withdrew troops from Turkey, Romania, Austro-Hungarian Empire and Africa, and surrendered 5,000 artillery pieces, 25,000 machine guns, 3,000 mortars, 1,700 aircraft, 5,000 train locomotives, 150,000 wagons and 5,000 trucks. The ceasefire takes effect in six hours. The signing of the "Compigne Forest Armistice Agreement" declared the complete defeat of the Allied Powers of Germany, Austria, Turkey and Bulgaria, and the First World War ended. 1914-1918 An international conflict that occurred in 1997 drew most European countries, as well as Russia, the United States, the Middle East and other regions into war. The warring parties were the Allies (mainly Germany, Austro-Hungary and Turkey) and the Allies (mainly France, Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and since 1917 the United States). The war ended in the defeat of the Allies. By 1910, major European countries had formed two potentially hostile alliances, with Germany and Austria on the one hand and France, Britain and Russia on the other. On June 18, 1914, a Serbian nationalist assassinated Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo. A series of threats, last-minute clarifications and military mobilizations ensued, and in mid-August full-scale war broke out between the two alliances. Germany has long been prepared to engage in land warfare on two fronts, the west against France and the east against Russia. On the Western Front, its troops circumvented France's main defensive forces and headed west through Belgium and south, bringing Britain into war because of its treaty obligations. The Germans headed south for Paris. France, reinforced by the British Expeditionary Force, did not stabilize its line along the Aisne River until November, saving Paris from occupation but allowing the war to be fought on French soil. Due to the great power of modern artillery and machine guns, the war quickly turned into a war of attrition, and a deadlock emerged on the Western Front. The numerous battles of the Somme and Verdun in 1916 and the large-scale German counterattack in early 1918 failed to break this situation. On the Eastern Front, Russia's early counterattack in 1914 penetrated into East Prussia, German Poland and Galicia, but by the end of the year the Russian troops were intercepted by German-Austrian forces. In May 1915, the Russian army was driven back into its own territory during a shocking German counterattack. Although the Russian army launched several more counterattacks, resulting in heavy casualties, it was unable to break through the German line of defense or occupy German territory. Although other battlefields were on the edge of the main battlefield, the battles were also fierce. These include Gallipoli and the Dardanelles; Caucasus and Persia; Mesopotamia and Egypt; the Isunzo Valley northwest of Trieste. At sea, only Germany and Britain had powerful fleets. Britain tried to blockade Germany and cut off its sea channel for transporting food and supplies from the sea. In retaliation, Germany used its latest weapon, submarines, to block maritime supply lines to the British Isles. Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare. It finally prompted the United States to participate in the War against Germany in 1917. The most important maritime confrontation and the largest naval battle in the history of world naval warfare was the Battle of Jutland between the British and German fleets in May 1916, but there was no winner. Russia's ineffective combat and heavy casualties caused widespread dissatisfaction in the country, leading to the collapse of the Russian Empire in early 1917 and the victory of the Bolshevik Revolution in November of the same year. At Lenin's order, Russia unilaterally armistice on November 26. Months later, a formal peace treaty was signed with Germany and the war was withdrawn. Germany and the army withdrew from the eastern front to the western front in an attempt to break the deadlock, but their strength was offset by the arrival of U.S. troops in France. In the autumn of 1918, the situation of the Allies deteriorated rapidly, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire effectively disintegrated in October due to military defeat and the shock of the national uprising inspired by the Russian Revolution. Germany's major counterattack on the Western Front failed. By October 1918, the Allied forces had recovered the German-occupied French territory and parts of Belgium. The German army had no fighting spirit and the people were disorganized. Amid widespread political unrest, Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated on November 9. On November 11th, Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies. The end of World War I, the jubilant US troops stationed in France celebrated victory. The newly formed RAF women's unit stood happily on the streets of London and thousands of towns and villages across the UK held children's street rallies to celebrate the armistice.