The May 4th Movement was caused by the diplomatic failure of the Paris Peace Conference in China. On May 4th, 2009, 1965438+2009, a middle and lower class, mainly young students, participated in it.

This patriotic movement, which took the form of demonstrations, petitions, strikes and violent confrontation with the government, was a patriotic movement of the people of China who thoroughly opposed imperialism and feudalism, also known as the "May 4th Storm".

The four major movements directly influenced the birth and development of China * * *(China * * *), which was generally defined as "anti-imperialist and anti-feudal patriotic movement" in the history of China * * * (note that the word "feudalism" here is a broad feudal concept), and regarded this movement as a watershed between the old democratic revolution and the new democratic revolution.

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The great historical significance of the May 4th Movement;

1 The May 4th Movement was a great patriotic mass movement. The object of its struggle was against imperialism and the northern warlords government, and its thoroughness of anti-imperialism and anti-feudalism was unprecedented in the May 4th Movement. It fully mobilized the masses, industry and commerce to unite, and some farmers participated, which actually opened the prelude to the complete anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggle of the whole nation.

2. The May 4th Movement was a profound ideological emancipation movement. Make the people of China more aware of the nature of imperialist aggression and the darkness of warlord rule, and at the same time further improve the determination and consciousness of the people of China against imperialism and feudalism; It has promoted the national people's reflection and exploration of China's reform, and also promoted the vigorous rise of new ideological trends and the spread of Marxism? .

3. The May 4th Movement not only opened the prelude to the new-democratic revolution, but also started the new-democratic revolution in China. Since then, the proletariat has stepped onto the political stage, and the people's power has been widely mobilized, which not only endows the May 4th Movement with the basic connotation of the new-democratic revolution, but also directly creates class, ideological and cadre conditions for the establishment of China.

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