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Tamworth Manifesto. 1834. Peel’s moderate reforms as British Conservative Party platform.
Tea Act. 1773. British give British East India Company effective monopoly in North America. Boston Tea Party.
Togliatti, Palmiro. 1893-1964. Co-founder, Italian Communist Party. Leader 1926-.
Tory. Term (Irish = outlaw) applied 1679 to Duke of York supporters. English Royalist political party 1690-1830, refounded as Conservative Party 1833. In US: =colonists loyal to Britain during American Revolution.
Trades Union Congress. TUC. 1868. Organization of British unions sponsoring Labour Party. ICFTU.
Trudeau, Pierre. 1919-2000. Canadian Liberal Prime Minister 1969~84. Constitution Act 1982; Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Wafd. 1918-52. Egyptian nationalist party. Dissolved by Revolution.
Watergate. 1972-4. US political scandal over burglary of Democratic headquarters. Cover up led to Nixon’s resignation.
Whig. 1679-19C. British political party =Liberal. Originally to oppose James II. Came to represent wealthy middle class. Tory.
Whig. 1834-54. US political party. Divided over slavery, most became Republican.
Whitlam, Gough. 1916-. Australian Labour Prime Minister 1972-5. Quit Vietnam War. Dismissed by Governor General. Reduced immigration restrictions. White Australia.
Wilson, Harold. 1916-95. British Labour Prime Minister 1964~76.