WW1 ENDS!!

November 11th 1918 at 11 am the First World War, also known as the Great War, ended. The
Central Powers was unraveling in its war effort and the Allies were better supplied and
coordinated. Facing exhausted resources on the battlefield, turmoil on the home front and the
surrender of its weaker allies, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire, Germany was
finally forced to seek an armistice with the Allies in the early days
of November 1918. (Nov 11, 1918: World War I ends) On
November 7th the German chancellor sends delegates to France to
negotiate the agreement and it was signed at 5:10am on November
11th. However the fighting did not stop until November 11 at 11
a.m. French time.
The Great War took the lives of about 9 million soldiers, about 21
million more were wounded, and civilian deaths caused indirectly by the
war was about 10 million. The two nations that were the most affected
were Germany and France, each of them sent around 80 percent of their
male populations between the ages of 15 and 49
into the war to fight.
The emotions of many people, on and off the battlefield, were
relief because of the peace following the end of the war and grim
mourning for the lost lives of everyone in the war. One soldier,
Lieutenant Lewis Plush who was 26 years old wrote about the wars
impact There was a war, a great war, and now it is over. Men fought
to kill, to maim, [and] to destroy. Some return home, others remain
behind forever on the fields of their greatest sacrifice. The rewards of the dead are the lasting
honors of martyrs for humanity; the reward of the living is the peaceful conscience of one who
plays the game of life and plays it square."