Answer:
Until recently, <u>women</u> in Bali did not participate in playing the gamelan.
Explanation:
Gamelan is a form of traditional music in Indonesia, especially on the islands of Java, Bali, and Sunda. A gamelan ensemble is mostly made up of metal percussive instruments, usually made of bronze or brass. The ensemble consists of over forty instruments in total, including metallophones, xylophones, bamboo flutes, gongs, drums, cymbals, etc.
Traditionally, only men participated in Balinese gamelan ensembles, but recently women started joining as well, even forming all-female gamelan groups.
Answer:
It is called the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, though it is also called the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact. It takes its name from the last names of its negotiators and signatories, German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov.
It was signed in August 1939, just weeks before the Nazi invasion of Poland. Both the Third Reich and the Soviet Union assured peace among themselves and divided Poland´s territory into two zones. The treaty allowed each state to cover their back; the USSR was not prepared for a war with Germany and did not want to fight alone, and the Third Reich wanted to avoid a two-front war in Europe (the WWI scenario and the nightmare of German strategists), knowing the attack to Poland would most likely lead to war with France and Britain.
Explanation:
... in response to new directions by other persons in leadership in China that Mao thought focused too much on technical expertise and not on ideological purity.
Mao Zedong began the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (its official name) in 1966. A big part of the program was the closing of China's schools, because Mao saw the majority of educators as bourgeois types who were failing to support the communist revolution. The Cultural Revolution was an insistence on loyalty to communist party ideology.
The Red Guard was formed, which was made up of high school and college students (no longer attending school, since schools were shut down). These radicalized students became militants for Mao over against those whom he considered not revolutionary enough. The Red Guard destroyed historical artifacts and writings of the of China's former culture. They also attacked persons who were seen to be resisting Chairman Mao's permanent revolution.
