June 4, 1989 was a day that changed China forever. Children growing up in China today will not be able to learn about every aspect of their country in school, even the most important events. Even though Chinese people are forbidden to talk about it, it is still an important event in the history of not only China, but the entire world. Many causes contributed to the massacre and the goals were very difficult to achieve, but the Chinese people never gave up. Censorship played a major role in this event. The Tiananmen Square incident of 1989 will never be forgotten. The death of Hu Yaobang, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, was a major cause of the June 4 incident. Hu Yaobang's death led many people, especially university students, to believe that this was the end of social reforms. Yaobang's death led many students to call for a confrontation between them and the government. The confrontation escalated to the April-May siege on Tiananmen Square, where their protests went unanswered. Another major cause of the protests...