Sino-Soviet Relations - Key Dates 1958-69

Question	Answer
2nd Taiwan Straits Crisis	1958
K criticises The Great Leap Forward as impractical/M accuses K of being too cautious+detached over Quemoy	1958
USSR cancels sino-soviet agreement on atomic cooperation	June 1959
K visits USA - M condemns rapprochement with US	September 1959
USSR cuts all economic aid + advisers to China	1960
China gives aid to Albania after splitting from USSR/ China encourages Romania to be more independent	1961
Meeting of leaders fails to improve relations	1963
Khrushchev and Mao resort to bitter personal attacks	1964
Khrushchev dismissed as leader	14 October 1964
China explodes first nuclear bomb at Lop Nor	16th October 1964
Zhou Enlai visits 3rd world countries to present china as leader of world revolution	1964
USSR develops policy of isolating Chinese in international affairs - stronger dies with Mongolia, North Korea + North Vietnam	1965
Mao's attacks on USSR leadership as revisionists increases during Cultural revolution	1968

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