Relations with USSR (1949-1973)

Question 1

What did the USSR hope for when the Chinese Communist Party won?

Answer 1

To have an ally in worldwide communist revolution

Question 2

What did Mao initially view the USSR as?

Answer 2

The world Communist movement – model for development

Question 3

When was the 20 year Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance signed?

Answer 3

14 February 1950

Question 4

What did the Sino-Soviet Treaty state?

Answer 4

USSR would grant a large learn to China – rebuild economy after the Chinese Civil War

Question 5

What else would the USSR supply?

Answer 5

Industrial technicians and industrial support

Question 6

When was the North Korean War?

Answer 6

1950 to 1953

Question 7

Who backed the North Koreans in the war?

Answer 7

USSR and China

Question 8

How was North Korea backed?

Answer 8

USSR: weapons
China: Extensive military presence

Question 9

What strengthened the ties between the two communist states?

Answer 9

Supporting North Korea

Question 10

Why did the relationship between Stalin and Mao worsen?

Answer 10

Growing power struggle

Question 11

What frustrated Stalin with the power struggle?

Answer 11

He couldn’t control China like Satellite States

Question 12

What frustrated Mao with the power struggle?

Answer 12

Wanted to be more powerful than USSR

Question 13

When did Khrushchev become the leader of the USSR?

Answer 13

1953 - Stalin’s death

Question 14

Why did Khrushchev make a policy to improve relationship between communist and capitalist countries?

Answer 14

Dangers of nuclear war

Question 15

What was the policy known as?

Answer 15

Policy of “peaceful co-existence”

Question 16

What did Mao not approve of the policy of “peaceful co-existence”?

Answer 16

With capitalist countries

Question 17

How did Mao believe communism should be spread?

Answer 17

Marxist vision

Question 18

What did Mao call Khrushchev?

Answer 18

Revisionist

Question 19

What did Khrushchev call Mao?

Answer 19

Traitor

Question 20

When was the Second Taiwan Strait?

Answer 20

1958

Question 21

Who backed who in the Second Taiwan Strait?

Answer 21

USSR + China
Taiwan + USA

Question 22

What did Khrushchev become concerned with during the Second Taiwan Strait?

Answer 22

Mao’s lack of caution

Question 23

How did the USSR assist China between 1954 and 1960?

Answer 23

Develop nuclear energy

Question 24

What did the USSR refuse to show China?

Answer 24

How to make an atomic bomb

Question 25

What did Mao believe the Great Leap Forward was doing?

Answer 25

Use of plentiful labour of Chinese peasants

Question 26

What did Khrushchev accuse Mao of with the Great Leap Forward?

Answer 26

Wasting Soviet aid

Question 27

When was soviet aid cancelled?

Answer 27

1960

Question 28

In 1962 who did the USSR back in war?

Answer 28

Back India in war with China

Question 29

Why was India and China having a war?

Answer 29

Over territory

Question 30

In 1963 did China accuse the USSR of?

Answer 30

Colluding with the West

Question 31

How did the USSR collude with the West?

Answer 31

Signing the Limited Test Ban Treaty - USA, UK

Question 32

What was the Limited Test Ban Treaty designed for?

Answer 32

Reduce nuclear testing

Question 33

What is the Sino-Soviet Split?

Answer 33

Breakdown between China and USSR relationship in early 1960s

Question 34

When was the Indo-Pakistani War?

Answer 34

1965

Question 35

Who was supported during the Indo-Pakistani War?

Answer 35

China and USSR supported oppositions

Question 36

When were anti-Soviet Demonstrations in China?

Answer 36

1967

Question 37

What happened during the anti-Soviet Demonstrations in China?

Answer 37

USSR removed diplomatic staff

Question 38

Why did China breakoff relations with North Vietnam?

Answer 38

China forced the North Vietnamese government to choose between China and the USSR. They chose the USSR – provided more aid

Question 39

When did China force the North Vietnamese government?

Answer 39

October 1968

Question 40

What happened in 1969 for both China and the USSR?

Answer 40

Involved in military conflicts along there she bola – deaths occurring on both side

Question 41

What was part of the Sino Soviet border that China demanded?

Answer 41

Control of Damansky/Zhenbao Island on Ussuri River

Question 42

Did China receive what they had demanded?

Answer 42

The USSR agreed to hand it over – relation to remain poor

Question 43

When was the Sino-Soviet treaty expired?

Answer 43

1970

Question 44

What is the Sino-Soviet treaty renewed?

Answer 44

It was not renewed

Question 45

When did China begin to compete with the USSR for influence in Africa?

Answer 45

1970

Question 46

How did China gain influence in Africa?

Answer 46

Building the Tandem Railway

Question 47

How did China invite the President of the USA to visit?

Answer 47

In 1972 they embark on a new foreign policy strategy

Question 48

What was the main issue of tension between the USSR and China?

Answer 48

Who is the real leader of the communist world

Question 49

When was the world Communist conference?

Answer 49

In Moscow in 1960

Question 50

What did cutting off all 8 to China result in?

Answer 50

Many Communist parties dividing into pro-Soviet union or pro Chinese factions

Question 51

What was a factor in Khrushchev we can in position in the USSR?

Answer 51

Public arguments and disharmony – four from power in 1964

Question 52

What would have led to the control of the Cold War being in the Communist bloc?

Answer 52

If you think are how China deliver atomic bombs and to set up a joint naval base in the Pacific