Gunpowder played a very beneficial role for the Europeans and a very detrimental role for the natives when it came to conquest, since almost all the natives in the newly-discovered lands could only fight back with man-made weapons such as spears. <span />
The answer to that is pro aparthied government.
The "Big Three" countries were the United States, Great Britain and Russia. They were called this because they were by far the most important allied players during the war, with Russia and Britain taking on most of the casualties.