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May Fourth Movement
History of China
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| 4th May Beijing Demonstrations against the terms of the treaty of Versailles
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| 4th May Beijing Over 3000 students of Peking University and other schools gather together in front of Tiananmen and hold a demonstration
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| 4th May Beijing Students join in a protest in the Tiananmen Square of Beijing against the European powers' decision to grant German-controlled Shandong to Japan, and thus create a new nationalist Chinese movement ("May Fourth movement")
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| 1919 | Rulin, Cao | |
| 5th May Beijing Under intense public outcry, the Beiyang government has to release the arrested students and dismiss Cao Rulin, Zhang Zongxiang and Lu Zongyu from their posts
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| 1919 | Zongxiang, Zhang | |
| 5th May Beijing Under intense public outcry, the Beiyang government has to release the arrested students and dismiss Cao Rulin, Zhang Zongxiang and Lu Zongyu from their posts
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| 1919 | Zongyu, Lu | |
| 5th May Paris Chinese representatives in Paris refuse to sign on the peace treaty, the May Fourth Movement win the initial victory, more symbolic than anything else, Japan retains the Shandong Peninsula and Pacific Islands won in World War I
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| 5th May Beijing Under intense public outcry, the Beiyang government has to release the arrested students and dismiss Cao Rulin, Zhang Zongxiang and Lu Zongyu from their posts
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