World Wars Timeline
Key events of the First and Second World Wars.
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 it 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.
Watch out for
- 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.
The data
21 rows
| Event | Year | War |
|---|---|---|
| Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand | 1914 | WWI |
| Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | WWI |
| German invasion of Poland | 1939 | WWII |
| Battle of Britain | 1940 | WWII |
| Attack on Pearl Harbor | 1941 | WWII |
| D-Day landings | 1944 | WWII |
| Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | 1945 | WWII |
| End of WWII | 1945 | WWII |
| Battle of Verdun | 1916 | WWI |
| Battle of the Somme | 1916 | WWI |
| Russian Revolution | 1917 | WWI |
| United States enters World War I | 1917 | WWI |
| Armistice with Germany | 1918 | WWI |
| Munich Agreement | 1938 | WWII |
| Fall of France | 1940 | WWII |
| Operation Barbarossa (German invasion of the USSR) | 1941 | WWII |
| Battle of Midway | 1942 | WWII |
| Battle of Stalingrad | 1942 | WWII |
| Battle of the Bulge | 1944 | WWII |
| Victory in Europe (V-E Day) | 1945 | WWII |
| Japan's surrender (V-J Day) | 1945 | WWII |
Fields
The shape of this dataset, read from the data itself: every column, its type and a real value. Agents can use this to plan a query without fetching the whole document.
| Section | Field | Type | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| data | event | string | Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| data | year | integer | 1914 |
| data | war | string | WWI |
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