api: YAML JSON TOON Database
version: 1.0.0
format: json
dataset:
  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[2]: 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[2]: "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[3]: cold-war-events,modern-history-turning-points,industrial-revolution
  category: History
  category_slug: history
  tags: "history,wars,timeline"
  view_count: 0
  entry_count: 21
  fields[3]{section,field,type,example}:
    data,event,string,Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
    data,year,integer,"1914"
    data,war,string,WWI
data[21]{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