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SINO-SOVIET SPLIT - Coggle Diagram
SINO-SOVIET SPLIT
CONCLUSIONS
The Sino-Soviet Split came as a result of ideological and political rivalry between the two superpowers
Mao accused Khrushchev of revisionism and abandoning Stalinist Communism, and was also angry at his submission to the US in the Cuban Missile Crisis, where Mao had also been left in the dark
Mao disliked the Brezhnev Doctrine and tried to implement the Cultural Revolution in 1966 to try to establish China as the leading Communist power
Mao was angry at China's perpetual inferiority to USSR and resented that they were not treated as equal superpowers
CAUSES
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BREZHNEV
attempted rapprochement due to US involvement in Vietnam failed - Mao reject USSR offer to place air bases on Sino-Vietnamese border as it felt like an intrusion
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Brezhnev encouraged rumours of a pre-emptive nuclear strike against PRC - pushed Mao into the arms of the US
MOSCOW SUMMIT
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USSR saw Basic Principles as binding, US saw them as 'aims'