1st Period Veteran's Day Group 6 by Patricia Hopkins

The Great War

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Ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919

The First Armistice Day

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November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day

Act 52 Stat. 351; 5 US code

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Act 52 Stat. 351; 5 US code, Sec. 87a was approved May 13, 1938, made the 11th of November in each year a legal holiday- a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as "Armistice Day"