End of World War One
An armistice between Germany and the World War One allies was signed on the 11th November 1918 in a railway carriage in a forest in Picardie in France. The armistice came into effect at "the eleventh of the eleventh of the eleventh" – that is at 11 o'clock, on the 11th day of the 11th month. In this image, Londoners climb aboard a Peace Bus to celebrate the news that the armistice had been signed.

The armistice terms were harsh – the withdrawal of German troops to their original territorial boundaries in the east, an immediate surrender of all weapons and warships and the renouncement of two peace treaties Germany had made with Russia and Romania. The Treaty of Versailles, which came the following year, confirmed Germany's worst fears about the terms – it was this pessimism that Adolf Hitler later exploited, blaming the 'November criminals' for much of the economic and social crisis the country faced.