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college students staged a series of demonstrations to protest the terms of the Versailles Treaty
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Mao Zedong proclaims the establishment of the People's Republic of China.
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The Cultural Revolution
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Tiananmen Incident Where police came and attacked
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Four Modernizations
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United States and the People's Republic of China formally establish diplomatic relations
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Hu Yaobang is appointed as the Party General Secretary
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college students in several cities stage demonstrations to demand political reform
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Hu Yaobang is accused of being soft on the student protests and on "bourgeois liberalism
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slow the pace of economic reforms, a setback for Zhao Ziyang.
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People began to gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Hu and voice their discontents.
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three student representatives carry a petition and kneel on the steps of the Great Hall in front of the 100,000 students who have gathered in the Square the night before
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small handful of plotters
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Ignoring warnings of violent suppression
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foreign bankers
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Several hundred students begin a hunger strike at Tiananmen Square in the afternoon.
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hunger strike,
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Li Peng summons several student leaders for a televised talk at the Great Hall of the People. Nothing is achieved
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The government's plan for martial law is leaked to student leaders, who call off the hunger strike and declare a mass sit-in
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The government formally declares martial law in Beijing
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The troops pull back to the outskirts of Beijing.
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The Defend Tiananmen Square Headquarters is set up. Chai Ling is named Commander-in-Chief.
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The resolution is announced at a press conference in the Squa
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The Defend Tiananmen Square Headquarters rejects the May 27th resolution to end the occupation of Tiananmen Square.
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The ten-meter-high Goddess of Democracy is unveiled
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At 5:00 pm, Liu Xiaobo, Hou Dejian, Zhou Duo and Gao Xin start a hunger strike in Tiananmen Square.
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Troops receive orders to reclaim Tiananmen Square at all cost
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Around 1:00 am, troops surround Tiananmen Square and await further orders.
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Deng Xiaoping, in a nationally broadcast television appearance, speaks to the commanders of the martial-law units