api: YAML JSON TOON Database
version: 1.0.0
format: yaml
dataset:
  id: 2930
  slug: world-wars-timeline
  title: World Wars Timeline
  description: Key events of the First and Second World Wars.
  summary: "Key events of World War I and World War II with year and war: the assassination at Sarajevo and the Treaty of Versailles, the invasion of Poland, Pearl Harbor, D-Day and the atomic bombings, plus the battles of Verdun, the Somme, Midway and Stalingrad, the Russian Revolution, the Munich Agreement and the surrender dates."
  use_when:
    - You need a dated event from either world war and which war it belongs to.
    - You are building a timeline or checking a year.
  caveats:
    - Battles span months or years, so the year given is the start or the most commonly cited date.
    - Some events (the Munich Agreement, the Russian Revolution) are tagged to the war they lead into or occur during.
  related:
    - cold-war-events
    - modern-history-turning-points
    - industrial-revolution
  entry_count: 21
  fields:
    - section: data
      field: event
      type: string
      example: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
    - section: data
      field: year
      type: integer
      example: "1914"
    - section: data
      field: war
      type: string
      example: WWI
  category: History
  category_slug: history
  tags: history,wars,timeline
  view_count: 54
  created_at: 1793403093
  updated_at: 1793403093
data:
  - event: Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
    year: 1914
    war: WWI
  - event: Treaty of Versailles
    year: 1919
    war: WWI
  - event: German invasion of Poland
    year: 1939
    war: WWII
  - event: Battle of Britain
    year: 1940
    war: WWII
  - event: Attack on Pearl Harbor
    year: 1941
    war: WWII
  - event: D-Day landings
    year: 1944
    war: WWII
  - event: Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
    year: 1945
    war: WWII
  - event: End of WWII
    year: 1945
    war: WWII
  - event: Battle of Verdun
    year: 1916
    war: WWI
  - event: Battle of the Somme
    year: 1916
    war: WWI
  - event: Russian Revolution
    year: 1917
    war: WWI
  - event: United States enters World War I
    year: 1917
    war: WWI
  - event: Armistice with Germany
    year: 1918
    war: WWI
  - event: Munich Agreement
    year: 1938
    war: WWII
  - event: Fall of France
    year: 1940
    war: WWII
  - event: Operation Barbarossa (German invasion of the USSR)
    year: 1941
    war: WWII
  - event: Battle of Midway
    year: 1942
    war: WWII
  - event: Battle of Stalingrad
    year: 1942
    war: WWII
  - event: Battle of the Bulge
    year: 1944
    war: WWII
  - event: Victory in Europe (V-E Day)
    year: 1945
    war: WWII
  - event: Japan's surrender (V-J Day)
    year: 1945
    war: WWII