Why is the diplomatic failure of the Paris Peace Conference the trigger for the May Fourth Movement?

Because of the failure of Chinese diplomacy at the Paris Peace Conference, China failed to recover Germany's rights and interests in the Shandong Peninsula as a victorious power, and the imperialist powers gave it to Japan instead.

The Paris Peace Conference in Paris.

The Paris Peace Conference was a product of the First World War, a meeting of the imperialist countries to arrange the post-war world order, and in essence it was a conference of imperialist spoils. The First World War was essentially a conflict of interests between the imperialist powers over spheres of influence and colonies.

In "Imperialism is the Highest Stage of Capitalism", through a large amount of data and rigorous academic analysis, it is proved that this war "is an imperialist (i.e., aggressive, plundering, and banditic) war on both sides, a war for the division of the world, for the division and re-division of colonies, the 'spheres of influence' of finance capital, and so on". He clearly defined the nature of the First World War as: "The present war is an imperialist war, and this is the essential nature of this war."

Purpose of the meeting:

Long before the Paris Peace Conference, France, Great Britain, and the United States had already indicated different purposes for the Peace Conference. France, because of the deep damage caused by the war and the German aggression against France several times in history, advocated severe punishment and weakened Germany as much as possible; Britain, out of traditional policy considerations, wanted to maintain a relatively strong and economically self-reliant Germany in order to maintain the balance of power on the continent; The United States, for its part, wanted to establish and benefit from a system that would guarantee a lasting peace as soon as possible, and at the same time advocated war reparations from Germany.

The purposes of the three main Entente powers were different and even contradictory, and although all three countries made concessions and eventually agreed, the result was that all sides compromised but none of them fully achieved their goals.

China's diplomatic failure at the Paris Peace Conference was the root cause of the outbreak of the May Fourth Movement.

a.That's right. b.Mistake.

Correct answer: B

Answer analysis: The diplomatic failure of the Paris Peace Conference was the fuse of the May Fourth Movement, and the root cause of the outbreak of the May Fourth Movement was the corruption of the Beiyang warlords and the oppression of imperialism.

Answer] Obi: a

The immediate trigger for the May Fourth Movement was the failure of Chinese diplomacy at the Paris Peace Conference. After the First World War, in order to re-divide the world, British, American, French, Italian, Japanese and other imperialists convened the "Peace Conference" in Paris on January 18, 1919. The answer is a.