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      • 'The Big Three'
      • Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points
      • The War Guilt Clause
      • The results of the Treaty of Versailles>
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      • The Formation of the League of Nations (Collective Security)
      • Changing Role of Women
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      • Abdication of the Tsar, Feb./March Revolution 1917
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      • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918
      • Vladimir Lenin
      • Russian Civil War 1919-21
      • War Communism
      • “Socialism in One Country”
Lenin’s Death and the Power Struggle
      • Leon Trotsky vs. Josef Stalin
      • Collectivization
      • Industrialization, 5 year plans 
1928-1941
      • Show Trials and the Great Purges
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      • Stalingrad
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      • The Washington Naval Conference, 1921
      • The Dawes Plan, 1924 and The Young Plan, 1929
      • Buying On The Margin
      • Black Tuesday, October 22, 1929: Stock Market Crash
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        • John Maynard Keynes
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      • Gustaf Stesemann and The Dawes Plan
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    • World War II>
      • The Invasion of Poland
      • Blitzkrieg Warfare
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      • Turning Point 1943: Stalingrad, Kursk, El Alamein
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      • The Wartime Conferences: The Opening Shots of the Cold War
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      • The Nuremburg Trials
    • Early Cold War >
      • A Bi-Polar World
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      • The Berlin Wall, 1961
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      • Perestoika and Glasnost
      • The Falling of the Berlin Wall, 1989
      • Coup in Russia, 1991
  • China ~ 1919 - 1991
    • Chiang Kai-Shek and the Kuomintang
    • The Japanese and Manchuria
    • The Stimson Doctrine
    • The Long March, 1934
    • Mao Tse-Tung (Zedong)
    • Chinese Civil War, 1946-1949
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    • The Great Leap Forward, 1956
    • The Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
    • Mao Dies, 1976
    • Deng Xiaoping takes over, 1978
    • Special Economic Zones
    • Tiannamen Square, 1989
  • The Middle East 1919 - 1991
    • Breakup of the Ottoman Empire and the French and English Mandates
    • The Balfour Declaration, 1917
    • The Israeli War of Independence, 1948
    • The Suez Crisis, 1956
    • The Six Days War, 1967
    • The Yom Kippur War, 1973
    • Anwar Sadat
    • The Camp David Accords, 1978
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Chinese Civil War

•Mao and the CCP liberated much of northern China from the Japanese by 1945
•Chiang was supported by the U.S.

•Didn't want communism to spread
•Civil War 1947-1949
•Chiang and the Nationalists lost and fled to the Island of Formosa (Taiwan)
•Becomes Nationalist China
•1 October 1949 Mao formed the People’s Republic of China
•The U.S. wanted to form a coalition between the two groups (George Marshall)
•Mao led a peasant army - People’s Liberation Army (PLA)

•Japanese killed more Chinese civilians than the Germans killed in the Holocaust

•Civil War 1947-1949
•Chiang and the Nationalists lost and fled to the Island of Formosa (Taiwan)
•Becomes Nationalist China
•1 October 1949 Mao formed the People’s Republic of China
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Question:

How else could the chinese have handled the demonstrations besides opening fire on them?

Summary:

To this day many chinese people don't know the truth behind what happened due to propaganda blockages.  The PLA killed many innocent people.
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