Sino-Soviet relations after Khrushchev

Question 1

What happened to Khrushchev in 1964?

Answer 1

He was removed from power in the USSR

Question 2

What did the new Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev attempt to do?

Answer 2

Establish a working relationship with Mao

Question 3

What did Mao launch in 1965?

Answer 3

A new ideological campaign: the Cultural Revolution

Question 4

What did Mao outline during the Cultural Revolution?

Answer 4

A new ideological insight

Question 5

What did Mao argue in the Cultural Revolution?

Answer 5

The USA and USSR were the global cities, and China and the Third World were the global countryside

Question 6

Why was the Cultural Revolution significant?

Answer 6

Mao argued that the workers in the countryside were true revolutionaries, whereas city people were decadent bureaucrats

Question 7

When did the USSR and China finally end diplomatic and trading relations?

Answer 7

March 1966

Question 8

What was the Sino-Soviet relationship like by the summer of 1966?

Answer 8

Minimal contact between the 2 governments, who were only prepared to collaborate in order to get arms from the SU to Vietnam, via China

Question 9

What was the Cultural Revolution?

Answer 9

A period of turmoil, initiated by Mao in an attempt to reassert his dominance over China, after the failure of the Great Leap Forward