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May the fourth Movement 1919 - Coggle Diagram
May the fourth Movement 1919
Causes :explode:
Foreign :flag-ac:
German Territory in Japan went to China
3,000 students demonstrated in Beijing against the Peace Conference decision.
More demonstrations and angry protests then occurred across the country, followed by strikes.
a determination to force foreigners out of China.
the government had not done enough to pull China free of foreign interference
Cultural :prince:
a rejection of Confucian philosophy, associated with the Imperial family.
democratic thinking and slogans such as 'mr science' and 'mr democracy'.
Nationalist and Communist numbers swelled as students were attracted to these movement that had been involved in the protests.
Key Features :silhouettes:
a broad collection of scholars, writers and intellectuals were present
Mao Zedong was present
They marched to the house of a government official who had close links to Japan. They burned down the house and beat up China’s minister to Japan.
Burning of Japanese books
Impacts
foreign impacts
On 4 May 1919, 3,000 students demonstrated in Beijing against the Peace Conference decision.
They marched to the house of a government official who had close links to Japan.
They burned down the house and beat up China’s minister to Japan.
More demonstrations and angry protests then occurred across the country, followed by strikes.
The government announced that it would not sign the Paris Peace Treaty.
cultral impacts
Protests of 4th May 1919 inspired the May the Fourth Movement
in the 1920’s: a determination to force foreigners out of China.
Those following the May the Fourth Movement argued that the government had not done enough to pull China free of foreign interference - to achieve this more radical change was needed.
Main people involved
Chiang Kai-Shek
Trained at Sun Yat-Sens military academy
Became new leader when Sun Yat-Sen died
Did not trust the CCP or USSR - anti communist but kept alliance as needed them to defeat warlords.
Did not approve of Sun Yat-Sen’s three principles, was a social conservative, wanted moderate reforms (e.g education and finance) to help the middle classes.
un Yat-Sen
Returned to China 1917
Built support for the GMD (Guomindang) party in May 4th Movement
‘Three principles of the people’,
Nationalism - get rid of foreign interference.
democracy - self determination.
social welfare - create more equality for people.
Sun Yat-Sen setup a military training academy for the GMD army - wanted to defeat the warlords and reunify China.
USSR told CCP to join with GMD. USSR funded the GMD and sent specialists to help training of military. Also changed the three principles to fit in better with Leninism.