5.4 Student opposition and Tiananmen Square

Question 1

What happened at the student protest, when was it?

Answer 1

1986 - Beijing
Demonstrations spread in unis across China
Anger at conditions, high rents from reforms, bad job prospects and corruption in CCP with controls on what could be studied and read

Question 2

what did the student protesters want?

Answer 2

multi party system, free elections, freedom of speech and democracy

Question 3

what was Deng’s reaction to the student protests?

Answer 3

Hu Yaobang sent sympathy for students and was sacked. deng arrested student leadets and censored more of the acts
Deng announces China doesn’t need democracy because they have an enlightened gov
ended protests but created resentment

Question 4

Identify 2 ways in which student protests in China in the 1980s were similar to 1919?

Answer 4

Led by university studens
both ended by arrest/gov action

Question 5

What happened in the student protest of 1989?

Answer 5

Hu Yaobang died in 1989 which sparks protest
Students gathered in Tiananmen Sqaure

Question 6

why did students like Hu Yaobang?

Answer 6

students liked him because he expressed sympathy and support in 1986
He was the first to reject Mao’s jumpsuits - prefered western ones and also didnt adopt Mao’s policies

Question 7

Who is Li Peng?

Answer 7

Premier of the PRC

Question 8

what is the PRC?

Answer 8

People’s republic of China

Question 9

Why was Li Peng involved in student protests?

Answer 9

3 students gave hima pettition asking for greater freedoms - he rejected this

Question 10

What happened as a result of Li Peng rejecting pettition?

Answer 10

students from 40 universities join in protests - over 100,000 students
transports workers involved

Question 11

When was the Hunger Strike?

Answer 11

May 1989

Question 12

What happened in the 1989 Hunger Strike?

Answer 12

300 students went on hunger strike - gained world wide publicity and Hikhail Gorbochev vistis Beijing (a popular figure in China due to his reforms in russia)

Question 13

What happens after Gorbo leaves in June?

Answer 13

Deng takes action by declaring martial law in China - by 2nd June 350,000 PLA soldiers surround Tiananmen square

Question 14

how many soldiers surround Tiananmen square?

Answer 14

350,000

Question 15

When was the Massacre?

Answer 15

Juen 1989

Question 16

What happened in the 1989 massacre?

Answer 16

PLA told to reclaim square at all costs
Troops and tanks move in on Squre
From 10pm to midday next day, massacre occurs
No casualty data released (largely unknown event, nobody talks about it)

Question 17

Why did Deng call for a massacre?

Answer 17

Deng wanted violent ends to show people that the gov has the ultimate power

Question 18

what were 2 causes of Deng’s decision to use violenece to end protests in teh square 1989?

Answer 18

• protests were a serious threat
• Express determination that there should be no democracy in China

Question 19

What was the result of the massacre?

Answer 19

Demonstrtion marked end of Democratic movement
Deng claimed legitimate attack on “counter-revolutionaries”
The international reaction is that the world is ‘saddened’ by this