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 starter activity. Achievements. Charismatic leader “Unified China and set it in the national direction” (Kissinger) Long March (1935) against Khuomintang led by Chiang-Kai-Shek Helped to defeat Japan during WWII Great Leap Forward (1958-61) China became nuclear power (1965). Failings.

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  1. starter activity

  2. Achievements • Charismatic leader • “Unified China and set it in the national direction” (Kissinger) • Long March (1935) against Khuomintang led by Chiang-Kai-Shek • Helped to defeat Japan during WWII • Great Leap Forward (1958-61) • China became nuclear power (1965)

  3. Failings • Human tragedy – 20-30m died during GLF • Centrally planned economy • Cultural Revolution (1965-8) • De-stalinisation in USSR left China politically isolated • USSR refused to share nuclear technology • Outmanoeuvred by moderates

  4. How did Sino-Soviet relations change during the Cold War?  Aims To assess the strength of China’s relations with the USSR

  5. Ling-Ling & Hsing-Hsing

  6. Unequal partners • Mao treated as an instrument of Soviet power • Sino-Soviet Treaty (1950) heavily favourable to USSR • 1920s-1949, USSR supported Chinese nationalists and defended its own interests in Manchuria • Mao need Soviet support against USA & in constructing communist society in China • Terms of Sino-Soviet treaty (1950), e.g. Mongolia part of USSR sphere of influence, no support over Taiwan, no revolutionary strategy for East Asia

  7. Achievements from Sino-Soviet Treaty (1950) • Formal alliance • Economic aid - $300m; technical assistance • Soviet military assistance • Soviet promise to restore Chinese soverignty over Manchuria

  8. Stalin & Mao, Moscow, 1949. Caption competition

  9. How accurately does this photograph (Beijing, 1958) demonstrate the true nature of Sino-Soviet relations in the 1950s?

  10. Read p. 123-6 and list the reasons why Sino-Soviet relations deteriorated after 1953. Khrushchev waves goodbye, 1958

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