E13 783

Sino-Soviet Relations (1950 to 1979)

By lim_weili

  • Chinese Civil War 1945 to 1949

    (USSR's pro-Kuomintang policy - Soviet strategic considerations)

  • Creation of Communist China

    People's Republic of China (PRC)

  • Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship

    Official Sino-Soviet alliance

  • Start of Korean War

    PRC now tied very closely to USSR and needed Soviet economic and military aid

  • Death of Stalin

    Mao now saw himself as the most senior Communist leader

  • Khrushchev visited China

    His first visit as Soviet leader - forced to make many concessions to Mao

  • 20th Party Congress of CPSU

    Concept of peaceful of peaceful coexistence; separate roads to socialism; de-Stalinisation

  • Sino-Soviet agreement to share nuclear technology

    October 1957

  • Start of Great Leap Forward

    China's attempt to jump from socialism to communism (ideological differences)

  • Shelling of Quemoy and Matsu

    USSR only committed to defensive support for China

  • USSR broke the 1957 agreement

    Refused to share nuclear technology with China

  • Tibetan-Indian Border Conflict

    USSR took a neutral stand; even gave US$378 million credit to India; followed by Khrushchev's visit to USA (details)

  • Khrushchev threatened nuclear strikes

    Response to Chinese charge that he was soft on capitalism

  • USSR withdrew all technical assistance to China

    Soviet technicians and specialists and all bueprints

  • Open Split between USSR and PRC

    (Evidence of ideological differences) 22nd Party Congress of CPSU

  • Cuban Missile Crisis and Sino-Indian War

    PRC criticised Soviet weaknesses for backing down to USA in CMC; Soviets then supported India against PRC

  • Khrushchev fell from power!!!

    Rise of Leonid Brezhnev to power

  • China successfully tested its atomic bomb

  • Start of Cultural Revolution in China

    China in domestic chaos and vulnerable to Soviet aggression

  • Soviet blockade at Domansky/Zhenbao

    To enforce Moscow's reading of 1860 Russo-Chinese treaty --> link to subsequent 1969 border war (China's national security?)

  • Brezhnev Doctrine

    Threat to China's national security interests

  • Sino-Soviet border conflict

    Territorial dispute (threat to national security)

  • Sino-US Rapprochement

    Nixon visited Communist China - 1st US President to do so

  • Death of Mao Zedong

    Rise of Deng Xiaoping to power

  • End of Soviet blockade at Zhenbao

  • Soviet-Vietnamese Treaty of Friendship

  • Vietnam invaded Kampuchea

    USSR supported Vietnam while PRC supported Kampuchea

  • China invaded Vietnam

    To punish Vietnam's invasion of Kampuchea

  • Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

    Threat to China's security interests?