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West Point Cemetery
West Point Cemetery, at the U.S. Military Academy, New York, is America's oldest military post cemetery, designated in 1817, with 9,396 burials on 11.379 acres including Schwarzkopf, Edward White II, and Medal of Honor recipients.
West Ukrainian People's Republic (Західноукраїнська Народна Республіка)
The West Ukrainian People's Republic (ZUNR, ЗУНР) was a Ukrainian state proclaimed 1-13 November 1918 on former Austro-Hungarian lands (Eastern Galicia, Bukovina, Transcarpathia), unified with the UNR by the Act Zluky of 22 January 1919, and lost to Poland by July 1919.
Western Allied invasion of Germany
Western Allied invasion of Germany: the 1945 final campaign in which US, British, Canadian, and French forces crossed the Rhine at Remagen, Oppenheim, Wesel (Operation Plunder), and Worms, encircled the Ruhr, and accepted Germany's surrender on 7 May 1945.
Western Desert campaign
The Western Desert campaign was a series of WWII battles in Egypt and Libya, where British forces fought Italian and German armies for control of North Africa.
Western Design
The Western Design was a 1654 military expedition sent by Oliver Cromwell's government against Spain's Caribbean empire, which failed at Hispaniola but captured Jamaica in 1655.
Western DR Congo clashes
Western DR Congo clashes: armed conflict begun June 2022 in Kwamouth, Mai-Ndombe, between the Mobondo Yaka militia and Teke communities and the FARDC, spreading to Kwango, Kwilu, Kongo Central, and Kinshasa's Maluku; over 5,000 killed, 280,000 displaced.
Western Front (World War I)
Western Front (World War I): the main 1914-1918 battle line in Belgium and northern France, also known as the Westfront, where German and Entente armies fought a trench stalemate broken only in 1918.
Western Front (World War II)
The Western Front of World War II was the Allied land campaign in Western Europe against Nazi Germany, from the 1940 conquest of France to victory in May 1945.
Western Iran clashes (2026–present)
Western Iran clashes (2026–present): armed engagements between Iranian security forces, mainly the IRGC, and Kurdish armed groups including PJAK and Khori Hiwa, beginning in June 2026 in Kurdistan, West Azerbaijan, and Kermanshah provinces during the 2026 Iran war.
Western Syria clashes
Western Syria clashes: 2025–2026 fighting between Syria's interim authorities and Druze and Alawite communities, centered on Suwayda, Jaramana, and the coast, marked by the July 2025 Suwayda offensive, Bedouin tribal mobilization, Israeli strikes, and a lasting stalemate.
Western Turkic conquest of the Oxus valley
The Western Turkic conquest of the Oxus valley was the seizure of Sogdiana and later Tokharistan by the Western Türk Khaganate, beginning around 560 after the Hephthalite empire fell.
Westgate shopping mall attack
The 2013 Westgate shopping mall attack: a four-day al-Shabaab siege of Nairobi's upscale Westgate mall beginning 21 September 2013, killing at least 67 people and wounding over 175 in retaliation for Kenya's intervention in Somalia.
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
When Johnny Comes Marching Home is an 1863 Civil War song published in Boston under Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore's pseudonym Louis Lambert, dedicated to the Union Army and Navy, with disputed melody origins and later use in both world wars.
White Army (Белая армия)
White Army (Белая армия; also White movement, Белое движение): the heterogeneous anti-Bolshevik military-political forces of the Russian Civil War 1917-1923, led by Kolchak, Denikin, Yudenich, and Wrangel, defeated by 1920-1923.
White Bronco chase
The White Bronco chase, also called the O.J. Simpson freeway chase, was a June 17, 1994 slow-speed pursuit of murder suspect O.J. Simpson in a white 1993 Ford Bronco driven by Al Cowlings across Los Angeles freeways, watched live by about 95 million viewers and ending in his Brentwood arrest.
White Friday (1916)
White Friday, 13 December 1916 (actually a Wednesday; Italian Santa Lucia Nera), was a day of avalanches on the WWI Italian Front in the southeastern Alps, killing hundreds to thousands; the worst buried an Austro-Hungarian barracks at Gran Poz on Mount Marmolada, 270–332 dead.
White movement (Белое движение)
White movement (Белое движение): heterogeneous anti-Bolshevik military-political force of the Russian Civil War 1917-1923, led by Kolchak, Denikin, Yudenich, and Wrangel, with tricolor symbolism and the non-predetermination doctrine.
White poppy
White poppy: pacifist remembrance symbol first made in 1933 by the Co-operative Women's Guild, distributed since 1934 by the Peace Pledge Union; remembers all war victims, military and civilian, and commits to peace, alongside or instead of the red poppy.
White River War
The White River War, also called the Ute War or Meeker Massacre, was an 1879 conflict between Ute bands and the US Army in northwestern Colorado.
White Rose
White Rose (Weiße Rose): Munich student resistance group, 1942–43, founded by Hans Scholl with Sophie Scholl, Schmorell, Probst, Graf, and Professor Huber; six anti-Nazi leaflets, graffiti actions, 1943 executions.
Wilcox rebellion
The Wilcox rebellions were failed armed uprisings led by Robert William Wilcox against the Hawaiian Kingdom's government and the Republic of Hawaii, from 1888 to 1895.
Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen (1893–1918), British First World War poet and officer, killed at Ors on 4 November 1918, a week before the Armistice. Known for 'Dulce et Decorum Est', 'Anthem for Doomed Youth', pararhyme, his friendship with Siegfried Sassoon at Craiglockhart, and the Military Cross.
Will Jimeno
Will Jimeno (William José Jimeno), Colombian-born retired Port Authority police officer and 9/11 survivor, buried under the Twin Towers rubble for over 13 hours, subject of Oliver Stone's World Trade Center and author of two 2021 books.
Willi Herold
Willi Herold (1925-1946), the "Henker vom Emsland": a Wehrmacht lance corporal who posed as a captain in a found uniform, took over penal camp II Aschendorfermoor in April 1945, had at least 172 prisoners killed, was tried by a British military court in Oldenburg and executed at Wolfenbüttel.
William Harvey Carney
William Harvey Carney (1840-1908), born enslaved in Norfolk, Virginia, was a sergeant in Company C, 54th Massachusetts Infantry, and the first Black American to earn the Medal of Honor, for saving his regiment's flag at Fort Wagner on July 18, 1863; the medal was presented in 1900.
William Quantrill
William Clarke Quantrill (1837-1865), Confederate guerrilla leader of Quantrill's Raiders, led the 1863 Lawrence Massacre in Kansas and the Baxter Springs massacre; mortally wounded in Kentucky in 1865.
William T. Anderson
William T. "Bloody Bill" Anderson (c. 1837-1839 to October 1864) was a Confederate guerrilla captain in Civil War Missouri, a leader in the 1863 Lawrence Massacre and the 1864 Centralia Massacre, killed at Albany by forces under Samuel P. Cox.
William Tecumseh Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman, also known as William T. Sherman, was a Union general of the American Civil War, best known for the 1864 March to the Sea.
William Walker (filibuster)
William Walker, known as the grey-eyed man of destiny, was an American filibuster who conquered Nicaragua, was elected its president in 1856, and was executed in Honduras in 1860.
Winfield massacre
The Winfield massacre was the August 13, 1903 mass shooting in Winfield, Kansas, in which Gilbert Twigg fired a 12-gauge shotgun into Camon's Band concert crowd at Ninth and Main, killed about nine and wounded about twenty-five, then killed himself after leaving a letter showing he had planned the attack.