World Series (baseball championship)
2004World Series picture, volume 2
page 30
baseball volume 2 page 32
World Trade Center (building complex
in New York City, New York, U.S.)
bin Laden volume 2 page 71
New York City volume 9 page 60
WorldWar I (1914-18)
MAIN ARTICLE volume 15 page 61
MORE TO EXPLORE
British recruitment poster picture, volume
15 page 61
places and events
Europe volume 4 page 164
France volume 5 page 60
Germany volume 5 page 106
Greece volume 5 page 152
Italy volume 6 page 174
Lusitania volume 7 page 185
Poland volume 10 page 108
Russian Revolution volume 11
page 108
Serbia volume 12 page 72
United Kingdom volume 14 page 21
Japan volume 7 page 15
Ottoman Empire volume 9 page 157
United States volume 14 page 30
Hoover volume 6 page 81
Wilson volume 15 page 47
Alexander the
Great
Alfred the Great
Augustus
Caesar, Julius
Castro, Fidel
Charlemagne
Chiang
Kai-shek
Churchill,
Winston
Cleopatra
De Gaulle,
Charles
Elizabeth I
Frederick the
Great
Gandhi, Indira
Gandhi,
Mahatma
Genghis Khan
Gorbachev,
Mikhail
Hatshepsut
Henry VIII
Louis XVI
Mandela,
Nelson
Mao Zedong
Napoleon
Nehru,
Jawaharlal
Nicholas II
Peter the Great
Stalin, Joseph
Victoria, Queen
Yeltsin, Boris
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post-war development
League of Nations volume 7 page 119
monarchy volume 8 page 159
technology
airplane volume 1 page 57
dogfights picture, volume 15 page 64
bomb volume 2 page 105
war volume 15 page 9
trench warfare picture, volume 15
page 63
WorldWar II (1939-45)
MAIN ARTICLE volume 15 page 65
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Allied Powers
France volume 5 page 60
meeting at Yalta picture, volume 15
page 70
Soviet Union volume 14 page 13
Stalin volume 12 page 176
Ukraine volume 7 page 64, volume
14 page 7
United Kingdom volume 14 page 21
Churchill volume 3 page 117
London volume 7 page 176, picture,
volume 15 page 66
United States volume 14 page 30
D-Day picture, volume 15 page 69
Eisenhower volume 4 page 117
Michigan volume 8 page 117
peace movements volume 10 page 44
Roosevelt volume 11 page 93
Truman volume 13 page 100
women factory workers picture, volume
15 page 69
areas of conflict
Algiers volume 1 page 80
Germany
Berlin volume 2 page 62
Greece volume 5 page 153
Kiribati volume 7 page 71
North Korea volume 7 page 81
Poland volume 10 page 109
Warsaw volume 15 page 14
South Korea volume 7 page 84
Axis Powers
fascism volume 5 page 8
Germany volume 5 page 107
Hitler volume 6 page 65
Nazi Party volume 9 page 27
Japan volume 7 page 15
bomb volume 2 page 105
Hiroshima volume 6 page 60
Holocaust volume 6 page 71
human rights volume 6 page 97
League of Nations volume 7 page 119
post-war Europe
Balkan Peninsula volume 2 page 13
ColdWar volume 3 page 150
refugee volume 11 page 40, picture,
volume 11 page 41
prisoners of war picture, volume 13
page 93
radar volume 11 page 16
war volume 15 page 9
weapon volume 15 page 26
WorldWideWeb (information network)
Internet volume 6 page 142
worm (animal)
MAIN ARTICLE volume 15 page 71
MORE TO EXPLORE
parasite volume 10 page 33
worship (religion)
Christianity volume 3 page 113
church volume 3 page 117
Worship, House of (Bahai temple in
Wilmette, Illinois, U.S.) picture, volume
2 page 7
Wotan (Norse god): see in index Odin
Wounded Knee (town in South Dakota,
U.S.)
MAIN ARTICLE volume 15 page 72
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South Dakota volume 12 page 150
Wounded Knee, Battle of (U.S. history,
1890)
Sioux volume 12 page 92
South Dakota volume 12 page 150
Wounded Knee, Second Battle of (U.S.
history, 1973)
South Dakota volume 12 page 150
Wounded Knee picture, volume 15
page 72
Wouri River (river in Cameroon)
Cameroon volume 3 page 22
woven cloth (textile)
knitting volume 7 page 75
Wovoka (Native American prophet)
Wounded Knee volume 15 page 72
WPA (U.S. history): see in index Works
Progress Administration
Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park
(national park in Alaska, U.S.) picture,
volume 1 page 64
wrestling (sport)
MAIN ARTICLE volume 15 page 73, picture,
volume 15 page 73, picture, volume 15
page 74
Wright, Frank Lloyd (U.S. architect)
MAIN ARTICLE volume 15 page 75, picture,
volume 15 page 75
MORE TO EXPLORE
architecture volume 1 page 171
Wright, Orville (U.S. aviator)
MAIN ARTICLE volume 15 page 75, picture,
volume 15 page 75, picture, volume 15
page 76
Wright,Wilbur (U.S. aviator)
MAIN ARTICLE volume 15 page 75, picture,
volume 15 page 75
ANCIENT HISTORY
Aegean
Civilization
Byzantine
Empire
Celt
Egypt, Ancient
Empire
Greece, Ancient
Indus Valley
Civilization
Mesopotamia
Persia
Phoenicia
Rome, Ancient
MIDDLE AGES
Caliphate
Crusades
Feudalism
Holy Roman
Empire
Inquisition
Magna Carta
Middle Ages
Mongol Empire
Viking
MODERN HISTORY
American
Revolution
Americas,
Exploration
and Settlement
of the
Apartheid
Cold War
Cultural
Revolution
Enlightenment
French
Revolution
Great
Depression
Holocaust
Industrial
Revolution
League of
Nations
Ottoman
Empire
Reformation
Renaissance
Russian
Revolution
Union of Soviet
Socialist
Republics
United Nations
Vietnam War
World War I
World War II
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Wright brothers (U.S. aviators)
airplane volume 1 page 57
Wright Company (U.S. company)
Wright brothers volume 15 page 76
Wright Exhibition Company (U.S.
company)
Wright brothers volume 15 page 76
Wrinkle in Time, A (book by LEngle)
LEngle volume 7 page 128
writer: see in index literature
writing
MAIN ARTICLE volume 15 page 76, picture,
volume 15 page 78
MORE TO EXPLORE
forms
alphabet volume 1 page 88
cuneiform picture, volume 15 page 77
history
ancient Egypt volume 4 page 113
communication volume 3 page 167
drawing volume 4 page 75
language volume 7 page 104
Writings (biblical text)
Bible volume 2 page 67
writing system: see in index writing
WWW (information network): see in
indexWorldWideWeb
Wyandot (Native American people)
MAIN ARTICLE volume 15 page 78
MORE TO EXPLORE
Champlain volume 3 page 81
Ontario volume 9 page 140
Quebec volume 11 page 9
COUNTRIES CAPITALS
Afghanistan Kabul
Albania Tirane
Algeria Algiers
Andorra Andorra
la Vella
Angola Luanda
Antigua
and Barbuda Saint John's
Argentina Buenos Aires
Armenia Yerevan
Australia Canberra
Austria Vienna
Azerbaijan Baku
Bahamas, The Nassau