Western European Union. 1948. Britain, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg. 1954 +Italy, Germany. 50 year treaty. NATO. European Defense Community.

Westminster Abbey. 7C Benedictine monastery. 1050-65 New Building, additions by Edward the Confessor; 1245 by Henry III. West towers 1745. Used for all British coronations since William I.

Westminster Conference. 1866-7. Planned independence of Canada under British North America Act.

Westminster Palace. 1860. British House of Parliament.

Westminster, Statute of. 1275,85,90. First reference to Great Council of England as Parliament. Reformed civil and criminal law. Legal protection for poor. 1931. British affirmation of autonomous dominion of British Empire countries. Established British Commonwealth.

Westminster, Treaties. 1654 Ends Dutch War. Dutch pay England. 1662 England, Brandenberg most-favoured nation status. 1674 Dutch American colonies to Britain. 1756 Prussia, British neutrality.

Wheatstone, Charles. 1802-75. English physicist: microphone. Telegraph 1836. Resistance bridge 1843. Concertina 1829. Stereoscope.

Whig. 1679-19C. British political party =Liberal. Originally to oppose James II. Came to represent wealthy middle class. Tory.

Whipple, Abraham. 1733-1819. American Revolutionary. Captured 11 British ships 1779.

Whiskey Ring. 1875. 110 convicted in US bribery scandal to save distillers excise taxes.

Whitehead, Robert. 1823-1905. British engineer. Torpedo 1866.

White House. 1792 US president’s Neoclassical residence by Hoban. Burned by British, 1814.

White Plains, Battle. 1776. Washington retreats before British advance.

Whittle, Frank. 1903-96. British. Invented jet aircraft 1930 First flown 1941.

Wiggin, Kate. 1856-1923. US author. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

Wilder, Thornton. 1897-1975. US playwright. Bridge of San Luis Rey 1927. Our Town 1938.

William II. Rufus. 1056-1100. King of England 1087-. Brutal. Subjugated Scotland, Wales.

William IV. 1765-1837. King of Great Britain and Ireland, 1830-. “Sailor King”. Reform Bill 1832.

William, Willis. 1883-1963. US poet. Pictures from Brueghel. In the American Grain.

Wilson, Harold. 1916-95. British Labour Prime Minister 1964~76.

Windsor. 1917-. Surname of British royal family, replacing Wettin, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in WWI.

Windsor Castle. British royal residence since 9C.

Winkelried, Arnold von. -1386. Swiss hero of Sempach. Sacrificed himself to create a breach in the cavalry of Duke Leopold.

Wolfe, James. 1727-59. British general. Captured Quebec in Seven Years War 1759.

World Bank. 1944. United Nations agency established at Bretton Woods.

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