HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: May Fourth Movement, Communist Project, War Crime
7 Apr 2017
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Demonstration: china was among those nations seeking support from the west and its rival was japan, gain support and gain a seat at the table, china needed permanent alliances with the west. It took a seat the treaty of versailles. It sparked a political protest movement: granted rights on china"s territory, the west turned its back on china and supported japan, they refused to sign the treaty of versailles. Different paths nationalism or communism: the threat of japan. Mao zedong: the road to communism must come from the working class, the peasants had a important role to play, placed peasantry at the centre. Long march: massive military retreat the long march it took a year to complete, only 10,000 survived, the surviving members defeated ching kai. China and the ussr: the side note stalin prefers ching kai he underestimates the strength of the pla and mao, he was wrong, when stalin was denounced as a war criminal.
