Wealth was defined by the amount of GOLD.
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.
"My enemies enemy is my friend"; this affected both WWII and the Cold War. Because of this, the U.S. supported a number of harsh dictatorships.
Answer: The Inquisition was a powerful office set up within the Catholic Church to root out and punish heresy throughout Europe and the Americas. Beginning in the 12th century and continuing for hundreds of years, the Inquisition is infamous for the severity of its tortures and its persecution of Jews and Muslims. Estimates of the number killed by the Spanish Inquisition, which Sixtus IV authorised in a papal bull in 1478, have ranged from 30,000 to 300,000. Some historians are convinced that millions died.
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The Siege of Leningrad is a event which took place during WWII. This was a was a prolonged military blockade undertaken from the south by the Army Group North of Nazi Germany against the Soviet city of Leningrad on the Eastern Front in World War II.
