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6. How many Chinese students were invited to the Soviet Union on advanced training courses?
7. When was the Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance signed?
8. What did the Great Leap forward result in?
- A major famine
- A party
- Military conflict with the USSR
9. Which US president visited China in 1972?
10. What were one of the terms of the treaty of friendship, alliance and mutual assistance?
- The USSR would publicly support Mao's policies
- China accepted Soviet leadership of the communist world
- The USSR would indirectly attack the US
11. How did the Korean War benefit Stalin?
- Stalin could blame China for the conflict
- Stalin was able to avoid direct military confrontation
- Stalin could sit back and relax for a bit
12. Why did China want to develop a better relationship with the US?
- China felt excluded in world affairs
- China was encircled by unfriendly states
- The Soviet Union was being mean
13. After the 1956 Secret Speech what did Mao argue Khrushchev was?
- An anti-stalinist
- A dangerous revisionist
- An idiot
14. When did China turn communist?
15. What scandal weakened the America's position and prevented a full normalisation of Sino-US relations?
- The G7 Corruption Scandal
- The Profumo affair
- The Watergate Scandal
- The Petroleum Scandal
16. When was the Cultural Revolution launched by Mao?
17. Why did Khrushchev refuse to help China develop its own nuclear weapons?
- Mao had claimed that he was willing to see half the worlds population die to advance communism
- Mao threatened that he would bomb America which would threaten Khrushchev's peaceful coexistence
18. Why was the Moscow meeting, 1964 unsuccessful?
- China was unwilling to compromise
- Soviet leadership was weak so couldn't make decisions
19. In what way was Khrushchev more accommodating than Stalin?
- He signed an agreement to give up Soviet territory in Lushun
- He signed an agreement to give up Soviet territory in Manchuria
- He allowed changes to the Sino-Soviet border
- He was just really friendly to Mao
20. What was published as a result of the US presidents visit in 1972?
- Salt 1
- The Shanghai Communique
- The Basic Principles Agreement
- The Mutual Defence Treaty