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6. How many Chinese students were invited to the Soviet Union on advanced training courses?

  • 2678
  • 7000
  • 8000
  • 800

7. When was the Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance signed?

  • 1950
  • 1949
  • 1951
  • 1960

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?

  • Nixon
  • Ford
  • Kissinger

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?

  • 1947
  • 1959
  • 1949
  • 1950

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?

  • 1954
  • 1953
  • 1966
  • 1965

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