Separate peace
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- For the novel, see A Separate Peace.
The phrase "
separate peace" refers to a nation's agreement to cease military hostilities with another, even though the former country had previously entered into a
military alliance with other states that remain at
war with the latter country. For example, at the start of
World War I (
1914-
1918),
Russia was a member, with the
United Kingdom and
France, of the
Triple Entente, which went to war with the
Triple Alliance formed by
Germany,
Austria-Hungary, and
Italy. After the fall of Russian monarch
Nicholas II and the rise to power of the
Bolsheviks, Russia defaulted on its commitments to the Triple Entente by signing a separate peace with Germany and its allies in
1917. This armistice was followed on
3 March,
1918 by the formal signing of the
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
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