Booklet 4 - Cultural Revolution international impact

Question 1

international aim of Cultural Revolution

Answer 1

purge CCP of revisionism (what Mao accused USSR of)
remove foreign influence
purge the 4 olds which had made China weak to foreign powers

Question 2

USSR response to Cultural Revolution

Answer 2

USSR condemned the anarchy of the Cultural Revolution

Question 3

3 ways the Red Guard targeted the USSR

Answer 3

1. Mao rooted out soviet sympathisers
2. Red Guards renamed Soviet embassy street to “struggle against revisionism street”
3. Red Guards renamed Sino-Soviet friendship hospital to “anti-revisionist hospital”

Question 4

USSR/Chinese ambassadors

Answer 4

recalled in 1967
replaced in 1970

Question 5

1968 Brezhnev doctrine

Answer 5

USSR would forcefully intervene in EE countries if socialism was threatened. This threatened Mao’s position of power especially considering the anti-Soviet Cultural Revolution

Question 6

foreign embassies in cultural revolution

Answer 6

1. soviets’ surrounded and street renamed
2. dutch besieged
3. indian secretary beaten
4. british embassy burnt.

Question 7

how did the Cultural Revolution impact the people of China

Answer 7

emboldened them against foreigners - particularly USSR