Tiananmen Square
How a peaceful protest evolved into a civil rights standoff
Back round Information
- Tiananmen is a large city in the center of Beijing
- On April 15,1989, the former head of the Chinese communist party died
- Mao thought that education was a obstacle to communism
The Protest
- Students in Beijing gathered in the square to honor Hu's memory
- Groups of Hu's mourners who were mostly progressive and liberal began to gather at the square
- Soon the mourners were accompanied by civil servants, factory workers, and others who were unhappy with the current regime
- Attracted millions of protestors
Squashing the protest
- The government believed that the protestors were aggressors
- The military made there way into Beijing
- They quickly ended the protest by killing hundreds of people
After effects
- The United states and other members of the U.N placed new sanctions of China
- Many Chinese born after the brutal killing had little knowledge of the event