Liberation of Tibet

By hramsay15

  • Regency Dispute

  • China

    Claimed tibet was always a part of China from when the Mongols reunited them
    Took within a year to capture

  • Tibet

    LIttle police force= lots of theft
    Cruel punishments
    Little education
    Women=inferior
    Marriage= superstitious not religious

  • Tibet expels National Chinese Delegation to prevent Chinese agitation

  • China makes preparations to invade in March

  • Tibet troops surrender

    5,000 troops

  • China launches full-scale military assault

    40,000 PLA troops

  • Treaty

    17-Point agreement
    "Liberation of Tibet" but not really
  • Period: to

    After "Liberation"

    More, smaller uprisings China wins all but realizes need for changeChina gets lots of minerals/metals= needed for Industrial RevolutionTourism/investmentChinese move to Tibet to make money

  • Tibetan uprising of 1959

    Dalai Lama flees to India
    Repudated 17-point-agreement