COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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They asked them to leave
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They let them protest as long as they wanted
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They sent in soldiers and tanks and killed people
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The protests started on 15 April and were forcibly suppressed on 4 June when the government declared martial law and sent the People’s Liberation Army to occupy parts of central Beijing. Estimates of the death toll vary from several hundred to several thousand, with thousands more wounded.
Detailed explanation-2: -Similar protests that had taken place in other Chinese cities were soon suppressed and their leaders imprisoned. In the aftermath, President George H.W. Bush denounced the actions in Tiananmen Square and suspended military sales as well as high level exchanges with Chinese officials.
Detailed explanation-3: -Tiananmen Square was an intellectual protest for more political freedoms by students in 1989. The government responded to this peaceful protest with massive military force, killing and wounding a large number of protesters. Unfortunately, the outcome was disappointing-no political freedoms.
Detailed explanation-4: -A PBS interview of six experts observed that the memory of the Tiananmen Square protests appears to have faded in China, especially among younger Chinese people, due to government censorship. Images of the protest on the Internet have been censored in China.