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The May Fourth Movement

The imperialists stepped up their aggression against China after the World War

Ⅰand China suffered from the rious national crisis as the Northern Warlords

government restored to compromi and surrender externally and cruelly oppress

people internally .The failure of Chine diplomacy at the Paris peace conference

in 1919 touched off great indignation of the Chine.

On May 4 , over 3000 students in Beijing gathered in front of Tiananmen .

They made a demonstration, shouting loudly slogans, as "striving for sovereignty

externally, punishing national traitors at home" and "abolishing the Twenty-one

Demands "and so on. They required to punishing traitors, who were Cao Rulin,Lu

Zongyu,and Zhang Zongxiang , t fire to the Cao residence and beat Zhang Zongxiang

up. The Northern Warlords government dispatched military force to oppress, and

arrested more than 30 students.

On June 3，students in Beijing organized speech teams to make large-scale

propaganda so the Northern warlords government strengthened to oppress them and

caught over 170 students. After June 3,the patriotic May Fourth Movement mainly

participated in by young students developed into nationwide revolutionary movement

participated in by the proletariat, the petty bourgeoisie and the

national-capitalist class. The proletariat was main force of the movement。

With workers in Shanghai, Tangshan, Chang Xindian, and Jiujiang going to strike

successively, the Chine working class boarded the political stage as an

enlightened and independent political force and demonstrated his great power. Under

the pressure of the anti-imperial and patriotic struggle of the whole nation, the

Northern Warlords government was forced to relea tho arrested students and

dismisd three traitors' positions and refud to sign on the peace treaty for

Germany. The struggle of anti-imperialism and anti-feudalism won an initial

victory.

The May 4th Movement was a thorough and uncompromising anti-imperial and

anti-feudal revolutionary movement. It promoted the combination between the

Chine workers movement and the Marxism. It made a preparation for the founding

of the Chine Communist in idealism and leadership and it was the opening of the

Chine new democratic revolution.