War of the Three Henrys(1584-1598) - A series of three civil wars in France, also known as the Huguenot Wars; fought between the Catholic League and the Huguenots.
Wars of the Roses(1455-1487) - Intermittent civil war fought over the throne of England between the House of Lancaster and the House of York.
Warsaw Pact(1455-1487) - An organization of Central and Eastern European Communist states. It was established in 1955 to counter the threat from the NATO alliance.
Weimar Republic(1919-1933) - The first attempt at liberal democracy in Germany; named after the city of Weimar, where the new constitution was written.
Western Schism(1378) - Split within the Catholic Church at the end of the Avignon Papacy.
Whig - A member of the British Liberal Democrat party.
White-collar - Class of labor performing less "laborious" tasks and are more highly paid than blue-collar manual workers.
White Man?s Burden - The concept of the white race's obligation to govern and impart it beliefs upon nonwhite people; often used to justify European colonialism.
William and Mary - King William III and Queen Mary II; jointly ruled England and Scotland after the Glorious Revolution of 1688; they replaced the absolutist King James II and ruled as constitutional monarchs.
William Gladstone(1809-1898) - A British Liberal politician and Prime Minister (1868-1874, 1880-1885, 1886 and 1892-1894), a notable political reformer, known for his populist speeches, and was for many years the main political rival of Benjamin Disraeli.
