WHY WAS THERE A SINOSOVIET SPLIT 1945 1976

WHY WAS THERE A SINO-SOVIET SPLIT? 1945 -1976

REASONS FOR THE SINO-SOVIET SPLIT • Mao and Stalin were too similar (personality) to get along (created immediate tension between China and USSR) • Chinese were unhappy with the unfriendly treatment by USSR • Many clashes along the Sino Soviet border • 7000 km border • Stalin disagree with Mao’s attempt to run a peasants based revolution • “the Chinese must plant their backsides on the soil of China” • Meaning: China must have its own revolution not have outside revolutionaries dictate how China should conduct themselves. • USSR saw themselves as the only true interpreter of communist faith, this casued conflict

REASONS FOR THE SINO-SOVIET SPLIT • Mao disliked Stalin’s personality and the way Chinese were treated when they went to the USSR • Mao didn't feel he was treated well on his first visit to USSR • It is suspected, Mao and Stalin did not get along therefore Stalin didn’t want to spend time which he didn't need to with him. • Khrushchev and Mao did not get along either • Khrushchev's de-Stalinization’s cult of personality was a reflection on Mao’s cult of personality • The Sino-Soviet treaty of 1950 was in favor of Stalin • The $300 million from the USSR was a loan (with interest), NOT a gift

REASONS FOR THE SINO-SOVIET SPLIT • Mao’s second visit to the USSR • An attempt by Krushchev to make peace between USSR and China • Mao made it clear that the USSR’s approach to the west was too accommodating • The Taiwan issue (1958): • Without consulting the USSR he prepared a full scale assault on the nationalist held island. (the attack did not follow through because the USA prepared for war against China) • The USSR did not support China in its threats to attack Taiwan, this caused Khrushchev to withdraw economic advisors from China • Rivalry over Albania: China gave support to countries in the Eastern-bloc when USSR was undergoing de. Stalinazation. This upset the USSR

REASONS FOR THE SINO-SOVIET SPLIT • China walking out of the Moscow conference in 1961 • PRC had been invited to observe speech by Krushchev in the USSR • Krushcheve had made statements about the backwards Stanlist ways of Albania • Zhou Enlai had predicted this offensive attack on the Chinese, so the entire Chinese delegation exited the hall in a rehearsed manner. • Name ccalling: • Krushchev called Mao: Asian Hitler • And Mao called Kurshchev: A redundant old boot

EVENTS OF SINO-SOVIET SPLIT • 1958 - Soviet withdraws economic advisors and cancels commercial contracts • 1960 - Nuclear scientist withdraw from China, shredding their documents • 1964 - Chinese develops A bomb (with shredded documents) • 1967 - Chinese develops H bomb • 1969 - USSR tries to outlaw China from International Communism • PRC and USSR point nuclear rockets at each other

DID MAO EVER SEEK SUPPORT FROM OTHER COUNTRIES APART FROM THE USSR

• President Nixon: the People’s Republic of China was here to stay and some sort of working relationship with Beijing was in the interests of the United States. • He thought that having China on his side would balance the power of the Cold war • The Chinese accepted a security advisor from USA (Henry Kissinger)