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The actual fighting between the Allies and Germany, however, had ended seven months earlier with the Armistice, which went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. Armistice Day, as November 11 became known, officially became a holiday in the United States in 1926, and a national holiday 12 years later.

If you have ever been in Canada during the month of November, you are sure have to seen a plethora of red poppies on people’s lapels. Although Remembrance Day is November 11th (the US’ Veterans day), the entire nation buys and wears the little red cloth flowers in memorial of fallen soldiers from the Canadian Royal Legion over the course of the entire month.

armistice Celebrating the Armistice, November 14, 1918Celebrating the Armistice, November 14, 1918 Members of the 134th Infantry quartette and band entertain the stevedores on the dock at Marseille, France, three days after the end of the war.