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Winfield Scott
Winfield Scott, known as Old Fuss and Feathers, was an American army general who served over fifty years, captured Mexico City in 1847, and proposed the Anaconda Plan.
Winfield Scott Hancock
Winfield Scott Hancock (1824–1886), nicknamed "Hancock the Superb," was a Union Civil War general who led the II Corps at Gettysburg during Pickett's Charge, later commanded the Fifth Military District, and narrowly lost the 1880 presidential election as the Democratic nominee to James A. Garfield.
Winter Soldier Investigation
The Winter Soldier Investigation, also called the Winter Soldier hearings, was a January 31 to February 2, 1971 VVAW war-crimes hearing in Detroit where over one hundred Vietnam veterans testified to atrocities, later entered into the Congressional Record.
Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting
Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting: August 5, 2012 attack at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek by white supremacist Wade Michael Page, killing six worshippers; deadliest anti-Sikh attack in U.S. history.
Wismar riots
The Wismar riots, also called the Wismar massacre, were an episode of racial violence in May 1964 in which Afro-Guyanese mobs drove roughly 3,000 Indians from Wismar, British Guiana.
With the Old Breed
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa is Eugene B. Sledge's 1981 Marine memoir of Peleliu and Okinawa, based on New Testament margin notes, later a main source for HBO's The Pacific.
Withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq (2025–2026)
Phased 2025–2026 US troop withdrawal from Iraq under the September 27, 2024 US–Iraq Higher Military Commission joint statement: coalition Iraq mission ended September 2025, last troops left Erbil Air Base September 30, 2026, concluding Operation Inherent Resolve.
Wokou (倭寇)
Wokou (倭寇; Japanese wakō, Korean waegu), "Japanese pirates," raided China and Korea from the 13th to 16th centuries; the mid-Ming Jiajing-era bands were mostly Chinese smugglers driven by the haijin sea ban, suppressed by Qi Jiguang.
Wola massacre
The Wola massacre (Polish: Rzeź Woli) was the killing of 30,000 to 50,000 civilians by German SS, police, and Wehrmacht units in Warsaw's Wola district in early August 1944.
Wolfpack (naval tactic)
Wolfpack (Rudeltaktik): WWII German U-boat tactic devised by Karl Dönitz, using radio-directed patrol lines converging on Allied convoys for night surface attacks; defeated by HF/DF, air cover, and convoy escorts by May 1943.
Women in World War I
Women in World War I, also called the Great War home front and women's war service, covers women's expanded roles in 1914-18: factory and farm work, nursing near the front, Yeoman (F) and Hello Girls service, Russian women combatants, and wartime suffrage gains.
Women in World War II
Women in World War II: American and British women's paid war work (over 6 million US factory workers, 7 million British women serving), women's military branches (WAC, WAVES, WASP), Soviet combat service, and long-run female employment effects.
Women's Battalion
The Women's Battalion of Death (1-й Женский батальон смерти) was Russia's first all-female combat unit, formed in May 1917 under the Provisional Government by Maria Bochkareva to shame deserting male soldiers; it fought at Krevo in July 1917 and defended the Winter Palace in October.
Women's Land Army
The Women's Land Army (WLA) was a British civilian organization, formed 1917 and revived 1939, recruiting women as "land girls" for wartime farm work; parallel bodies existed in the US (WLAA farmerettes) and Australia (AWLA).
Wonsan landing
The Wonsan landing brought UN forces, chiefly the US 1st Marine Division, ashore at Wonsan, North Korea, in October 1950, after South Korean troops had already captured the port.
World Central Kitchen aid convoy attack
World Central Kitchen aid convoy attack: Israeli drone strike on 1 April 2024 near Deir al-Balah, Gaza, killed seven WCK aid workers (Zomi Frankcom and colleagues) in a coordinated convoy; IDF called it a grave mistake, case closed without charges in 2026.
World Trade Center (film)
World Trade Center is a 2006 American docudrama directed by Oliver Stone, starring Nicolas Cage, about two officers buried in the rubble of the September 11 attacks.
World Trade Center controlled demolition conspiracy theories
World Trade Center controlled demolition conspiracy theories claim the Twin Towers and WTC 7 fell to pre-planted explosives; NIST, FEMA, and peer-reviewed engineering studies attribute the collapses to impact damage and fire.
World Trade Center site
The World Trade Center site, also called Ground Zero, is the 16-acre Port Authority-owned Lower Manhattan campus of the original Twin Towers, destroyed on 9/11 and rebuilt with One WTC, the Oculus hub, the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, and the Perelman Performing Arts Center.
World war
World war: a war among many major states across several continents, conventionally World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945); covers scholarly definitions, the naming history, and the Cold War as a proposed third world war.
World War I
World War I (the Great War, 1914–1918) was the global Allied versus Central Powers conflict defined by Western Front trench stalemate, poison gas, tanks first used in 1916, roughly 65 million mobilized, and over 8.5 million military dead.
World War I casualties
World War I casualties were the military and civilian deaths recorded between 1914 and 1918, estimated at roughly 9.7 million military dead and about 6 million civilian dead.
World War I memorials
World War I memorials, or First World War memorials, are the cemeteries, monuments, and cenotaphs built after 1918 to honor and name the war dead.
World War I prisoners of war in Germany
World War I prisoners of war in Germany: Allied soldiers, chiefly 1.4 million Russians among 2.5 million internees, held in German camps and labour detachments 1914–1922, under ICRC inspection, ration cuts, and postwar repatriation.
World War II by country
World War II by country covers how over 50 nations joined the Axis (Germany, Italy, Japan, plus Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Croatia) or the Allies via the 1942 United Nations Declaration, their occupations, casualties (26 million Soviet dead), and competing national memories of the war.
World War II casualties
World War II casualties: the deadliest conflict in history, with roughly 15 million battle deaths and 38–45 million civilian deaths; totals range from about 55 to 78 million, led by Soviet, Chinese, and Polish losses.
World War II casualties of the Soviet Union
The World War II casualties of the Soviet Union, military and civilian losses from the 1941 German invasion to 1945, totaled about 26.6 to 27 million dead.
World War II in Yugoslavia
World War II in Yugoslavia: Axis invasion April 1941, partition and the Ustasha Independent State of Croatia, Partisan and Chetnik resistance, British switch of support in 1943, and Partisan-led liberation by 1945.
World War II Memorial
The World War II Memorial, also called the National WWII Memorial, honors the 16 million Americans who served in World War II and the 400,000 who died.
World War II reparations
World War II reparations: post-1945 payments and asset transfers required of Germany, Japan, and Italy. Potsdam zone-based extraction, 1951 San Francisco Treaty, 1952 Claims Conference compensation, and ongoing Polish and Korean claims distinguish it from Versailles.