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  • Wartime dispute over industrial diamonds 1941–1943Dispute between the U.S. government and De Beers over industrial diamonds for war work, 1941 to 1943.
  • Washington Energy Conference 11–13 Feb 1974The meeting of 11 to 13 February 1974 at which the U.S. brought together the foreign ministers of major oil-importing countries.
  • Washington Post blocks its 2024 endorsement 25 Oct 2024In October 2024 Jeff Bezos blocked a planned Post endorsement of Kamala Harris.
  • Washington Post layoffs, 2026 4 Feb 2026On 4 February 2026 the Post cut a third of its workforce; publisher Will Lewis stepped down days later.
  • Washington Post opinion section turns, 2025 26 Feb 2025Cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned in January 2025; on 26 February Jeff Bezos announced the opinion section would defend "personal liberties and free markets".
  • Watergate 17 Jun 1972 – 9 Aug 1974Political scandal that began with a burglary in 1972 and ended with the resignation of President Nixon in 1974.
  • Watergate break-in 17 Jun 1972Burglary at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex on 17 June 1972; five men were arrested.
  • What the Warren Commission was not told Dec 1963 – Sep 1964What the Church Committee (1976) and a CIA historian (2013) say the CIA and the FBI left out of their dealings with the Warren Commission in 1964.
  • Whether the Holodomor was genocide 1988 –The dispute among parliaments, a Kyiv court and historians over whether the 1932–33 famine in Ukraine was genocide.
  • Whitehall Conference, 1655 Dec 1655Conference called by Oliver Cromwell in December 1655 on whether Jews should be readmitted to England; it ended without a definite conclusion.
  • Withdrawal of the Jupiter missiles from Turkey Apr 1963Removal of the US Jupiter missiles from Turkey in April 1963, after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
  • Worcester v. Georgia 1832Case of 1832 in which the Supreme Court held that Georgia’s laws had no force in the Cherokee Nation.
  • World Health Assembly vote on the infant formula code 21 May 1981Vote of 21 May 1981 in which the World Health Assembly adopted the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes, 118 to 1.
  • Wounded Knee Massacre 29 Dec 1890Killing of Lakota people on 29 December 1890 by the 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee Creek.