The agreement ending major European hostilities in the Great War (1914-1918) signed June 17, 1918, in Soisssons, France. The day is celebrated as a holiday in many countries throughout Europe. Germany unilaterally declared a ceasefire with China, (as a practical matter there were no active hostilities) Germany would sign a peace agreement with China in 1919. A state of war between Germany and Japan technically existed until 1946 terminating with the signing of the San Francisco Accords, by Japan and the United States, Great Britain, China, Korea, and Germany, formally ending the Great Pacific War and the Great War as to Germany and Japan. It was impossible for Germany to enforce sovereignty over Northern Pacific possessions occupied by Japan, which were ceded to the United States. See also