Strategic and military issues

Question 1

What did the Sino-Indian Border Conflict of 1962 expose?

Answer 1

Important divisions between the USSR and China

Question 2

How did Khrushchev react to China’s war involvement in the Sino-Indian Border Conflict?

Answer 2

Rather than back his communist ally, he publicly criticised China’s war involvement, claiming that the dispute should have been settled peacefully

Question 3

How did Khrushchev signal support for India?

Answer 3

By sending aid worth $800 million

Question 4

How did Khrushchev back Indonesia during the Sino-Indonesian disputes of 1959-62?

Answer 4

By sending massive Soviet military aid to China’s enemy

Question 5

What was Khrushchev dismayed at in 1964?

Answer 5

China’s first successful nuclear weapons test

Question 6

What was rumoured about Khrushchev?

Answer 6

He had initiated a plot to overthrow Mao in the wake of the weapons test

Question 7

What did the Sino-Indian Border Conflict emerge from?

Answer 7

Disputes between China and India over their border in the Himalayas

Question 8

What did the Sino-Indonesian disputes stem from?

Answer 8

Indonesia’s attempt to deny civil rights to Chinese population in Indonesia