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Learn what happened on This Day in History at History.com. ... On June 4, 1989, however, Chinese troops and security police stormed through Tiananmen Square, firing indiscriminately into the crowds of protesters. Turmoil ensued, as tens of thousands of the young students tried to escape the rampaging Chinese forces.
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www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=tdihArtic...
www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=2688
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In 1989, the Chinese government faced escalating student protests in Beijing and other cities. The regime cracked down hard, with tanks and soldiers from the People's Liberation Army. ... The Tiananmen Square Massacre, 1989 ... In reaction, university students from across Beijing marched on Tiananmen Square,
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asianhistory.about.com/od/china/a/TiananmenSquare.htm
asianhistory.about.com/od/china/a/TiananmenSquare.htm
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WAS THERE A MASSACRE in Tiananmen Square? ... The rest of May 1989 was a hopeless stand off between the government, which felt threatened and without options, and the core group of student protesters who wanted impossible concessions. Early morning June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square was cleared by army troops.
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www.sinomania.com/CHINANEWS/tiananmen_perspective.html
www.sinomania.com/CHINANEWS/tiananmen_perspective.html
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The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, also known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre and ... were a series of demonstrations led by students, intellectuals and labour ... Massacre in Beijing's Tiananmen Square 天安門事件 (June 4, 1989) ...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJBnHMpHGRY
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The fight for Freedom and Democracy became unstoppable after June 1989. The blood shed in Tiananmen Square has come to symbolize the triumph of the spirit over brute force. ... The Massacre - June 4, 1989 - 50 images ;
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www.christusrex.org/www1/sdc/tiananmen.html
www.christusrex.org/www1/sdc/tiananmen.html
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In June 1999 the National Security Archive published Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History, an online collection of declassified State Department documents pertaining to the events surrounding the June 1989 massacre by the Chinese military of demonstrators gathered in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
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www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB47/
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The Gate of Heavenly Peace - a documentary exploring the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, a result of the government's deadly response to Chinese students & workers gathered to demand democratic reform. ... During the spring of 1989, Could the brutal massacre on June 4 have been avoided? What did the students really want?
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www.itvs.org/external/GHP/
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On May 29, 1989, a 27-foot-tall foam-and-papier-mache statue appeared in Tiananmen Square, the 100-acre heart of Beijing, China's capital. For more than a month, thousands of college students had occupied the square in defiance of China's Communist government.
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