Treaty of Versailles Flashcards
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How was the treaty of Versailles unfair to China? and how did the help cause the communist party?
The allies were pressuring China to declare war on Germany in 194 but they stayed neutral. However about 150,000 Chinese volunteers went onto the front in Europe. They believed that their behaviour would be rewarded and they would recieve Shandong, a territory under German control. However in the Treaty of Versailles it was given to Japan (and the chinese representative stromed out right??). This lead to the may 4th movement.
the may fourth movement is where over 3,000 students marched on the streets of Beijing to protest the treaty of Versailles, and many intellectuals began to lose their faith in the democratic system and had more radical ideas.
This is believed to have encouraged Mao to pursue marxism.
