Author Question: The Sino-Soviet dispute a. was rooted in a struggle between the Chinese and the Soviets for ... (Read 107 times)

RODY.ELKHALIL · **on:** Sep 12, 2019

Question 1

What was the status of the relationship between the Soviet Union and Mao Zedong's China in the 1950s and 1960s?

a. It remained unchanged.
b. It was altered by the Soviet Union's increased interest in increasing world tensions, especially with the militarily dangerous United Nations.
c. It was weakened by Mao Zedong's belief that, after Stalin's death, Mao's status as the most experienced Marxist ruler should make him the leading socialist.
d. It was destroyed by Mao's threat to occupy southeastern Siberia if the Soviet government continued to make, test, and store nuclear weapons there.
e. It improved because of a joint fear of the United States' ambitions in South Asia.

Question 2

The Sino-Soviet dispute

a. was rooted in a struggle between the Chinese and the Soviets for control of Tibet.
b. was aggravated by the lack of Soviet support for Chinese efforts to reclaim Taiwan.
c. bore no relationship to the level of Soviet economic assistance to China.
d. saw Mao describe China as the international leader of industrialized nations.
e. produced a Soviet invasion of China in 1965.