Events Starting With W

Wall Street Crash of 1929
Wall Street Crash of 1929
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The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the ’29 Crash, the Crash of 1929, the Great Crash of 1929, the Great Crash of October 1929, the Great Wall Street Crash of 1929, 1929 Great...

Wannsee Conference
Wannsee Conference
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The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior officials of the Nazi German regime, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. The purpose of the conference was to inform...

War against Gallus
War against Gallus
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The War against Gallus was a Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire directed against the rule of Constantius Gallus, brother-in-law of Emperor Constantius II and Caesar of the East. The...

2001 war in Afghanistan
2001 war in Afghanistan
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The War in Afghanistan is an ongoing coalition conflict which began on October 7, 2001, as the US military's Operation Enduring Freedom that was launched, with help from the British...

War of 1812
War of 1812
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The War of 1812 was fought between the United States of America and the British Empire, particularly Great Britain and her North American colonies of Upper Canada , Lower Canada , Nova...

War of Attrition
War of Attrition
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The War of Attrition was a limited war fought between the Israeli military and forces of the Egyptian Republic and the...

War of the Austrian Succession
War of the Austrian Succession
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The War of the Austrian Succession involved nearly all the powers of Europe. The war began under the pretext that Maria Theresa of Austria was ineligible to succeed to the Habsburg...

War of the Spanish Succession
War of the Spanish Succession
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In the War of the Spanish Succession several European powers combined to stop French succession to the Spanish throne and what would likely have been a resulting shift in the European...

War on Terrorism
War on Terrorism
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The War on Terrorism or War on Terror is the common term for what the George W. Bush administration perceived or presented as the military, political, legal and ideological conflict against...

Warlord era
Warlord era
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The Warlord era is the period in the history of the Republic of China, from 1916 to the late-1930s, when the country was divided among military cliques, a division that continued until the...

Wars of Scottish Independence
Wars of Scottish Independence
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The Wars of Scottish Independence were a series of military campaigns fought between the independent Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England in the late 13th and early 14th...

Wars of the Roses
Wars of the Roses
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The Wars of the Roses were a series of dynastic civil wars between supporters of the rival houses of Lancaster and York, for the throne of England. They are generally accepted to have been...

Wars of the Three Kingdoms
Wars of the Three Kingdoms
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The Wars of the Three Kingdoms formed an intertwined series of conflicts that took place in Scotland, Ireland, and England between 1639 and 1651 after...

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Yiddish: אױפֿשטאַנד אין װאַרשעװער געטאָ; Polish: Powstanie w getcie warszawskim; German: Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto) was the Jewish resistance that arose...

Warsaw Uprising
Warsaw Uprising
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The Warsaw Uprising was a World War II struggle by the Polish Home Army to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. The Uprising began on 1 August 1944, as part of...

Washington's crossing of the Delaware
Washington's crossing of the Delaware
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Washington's crossing of the Delaware, occurring on December 25, 1776 during the American Revolutionary War, was the first move in a surprise attack against the Hessian forces in Trenton...

Watergate scandal
Watergate scandal
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The Watergate scandal was a political scandal in the United States in the 1970s. Named for the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., effects of the scandal ultimately led to the...

Web2.0 Expo 2008 San Francisco
Web2.0 Expo 2008 San Francisco
Events

A companion event to the Web2.0 Sumit, Web 2.0 Expo is an expanded, inclusive gathering for the technology and business communities through a combined conference and tradeshow.

Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's 56 kg
Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's 56 kg
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The men's 56kg weightlifting event was the lightest men's event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 56 kilograms of body mass. The whole competition took...

Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's 62 kg
Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's 62 kg
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The men's 62kg weightlifting event was the second lightest men's event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 62 kilograms of body mass. The whole competition...

Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's 105 kg
Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's 105 kg
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The men's 105kg weightlifting event was the seventh men's event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 105 kilograms of body mass. The whole competition took...

Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's 85 kg
Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's 85 kg
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The men's 85kg weightlifting event was the fifth men's event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 85 kilograms of body mass. The whole competition took...

Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's 69 kg
Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's 69 kg
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The men's 69kg weightlifting event was the third lightest men's event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 69 kilograms of body mass. The competition took...

Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's 94 kg
Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's 94 kg
Events

The men's 94kg weightlifting event was the sixth men's event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 94 kilograms of body mass. The whole competition took...

Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's 77 kg
Weightlifting at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's 77 kg
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The men's 77kg weightlifting event was the fourth lightest men's event at the weightlifting competition, limiting competitors to a maximum of 77 kilograms of body mass. The whole competition...

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