Chapter 10: Activity Tasks 1 - 10
Activity 1
Why Was Stalin reluctant to support Mao and the CCP?
Activity 2
How did Mao view Khrushchev?
A: Disaster prone”, wanted to use Khruschev’s vulnerability to his advantage (use it to rise to power)
What does Gaddis mean in Source B when he says that “Khrushceb and Mao had all the prejudices of nationalists?
A: Although they were Communists, at the core, they had many Nationalist ideals. So they both doubted each other.
Activity 3
What reasons do Chang and Halliday give for Mao’s initiation for the Second Taiwan Crisis?
Force USA to threaten a nuclear war in order to scare Taiwan for China.
Make USA do the work for China
Activity 4
1. What key points are made in Source B about Sino-Soviet relations?
Sino-Soviet relations an idol of Communism, representation of potential success
When it went to tatters, people had to explain why it had failed (people = china/russia)
2. Compare and contrast the views in Sources A and C on what caused the split.
Source A: Ideology main problem. Criticisms on Great Leap Forward, Korean War, etc. Personal relations between Mao and Khruschev poor.
Source C: Relationship outlived usefulness, china disposed of the relationship.
3. Values and limitations of Source B:
Values - Published in 2007, a later view on the cold war
Limitations - Not balanced argument in terms of Chinese, doesn’t acknowledge that there were always problems between the countries.
Activity 5
How did the following lead to the split between USSR and PRC:
Civil War: USSR saw GMD as stronger
Stalin’s attitude to Mao: saw him as a threat
Korean War: Soviet wanted to be paid for materials given during Korean War
Stalin’s death: Mao thought he could be the next Stalin, but Khrushchev came along
Khrushchev’s new policies:”peaceful co-existence” with West, Hungarian uprising - mao saw this as ussr failure, secret speech: mao saw it as an attack on his leadership
see above
Taiwan: Khrushchev accused Mao of Trotskyism and fanaticism in pulling international revolution at any cost
Great Leap Forward: USSR thought it was stupid
Albania: PRC replaced USSR aid, ussr saw this as a threat
Activity 6
Source A:
Promotes revolution, against peaceful-coexistence
Source C:
“Chicken” meaning “chickened out”, calling Khrushchev out
Soviet want a different sort of Communism to China, China has no right to tell Russia to focus on peasant class revolution instead of a working class revolution
Does not look at China’s view, value: can see soviet standing on the issue during the time
Activity 8
Rainstorm waiting to come, Mao is waiting to burst, threat to West, people worried China was growing to have the potential to develop ICBMs etc and overtake USSR???
Growing problem, nobody knew when it was gonna burst.
If people were not aware of how dangerous he could be, then people would not challenge him, hostility/ignorance = minimise risk of other countries challenging maos policies
Activity 9
Aggressive USSR policies, causing distress is Czechoslovakia, USSR oppression, “bankruptcy” shown, exploitation of European countries, armed provocation towards china, promotion of dictatorship over multiple countries in order to form socialism
Because they dont like the fact that USSR is taking over their own countries/authroity
Activity 10
1.
2. China killing itself, reducing itself to nothing, internal conflict
Activity 1
Why Was Stalin reluctant to support Mao and the CCP?
- Ideological Differences
- Stalin focused on a working class revolution whilst Mao focused on peasants
- Feared that Mao would be a rival to his authority
- Did not want the Cold War in Asia
- Underestimated CCP and believed GMD to be stronger
Activity 2
How did Mao view Khrushchev?
A: Disaster prone”, wanted to use Khruschev’s vulnerability to his advantage (use it to rise to power)
What does Gaddis mean in Source B when he says that “Khrushceb and Mao had all the prejudices of nationalists?
A: Although they were Communists, at the core, they had many Nationalist ideals. So they both doubted each other.
Activity 3
What reasons do Chang and Halliday give for Mao’s initiation for the Second Taiwan Crisis?
Force USA to threaten a nuclear war in order to scare Taiwan for China.
Make USA do the work for China
Activity 4
1. What key points are made in Source B about Sino-Soviet relations?
Sino-Soviet relations an idol of Communism, representation of potential success
When it went to tatters, people had to explain why it had failed (people = china/russia)
2. Compare and contrast the views in Sources A and C on what caused the split.
Source A: Ideology main problem. Criticisms on Great Leap Forward, Korean War, etc. Personal relations between Mao and Khruschev poor.
Source C: Relationship outlived usefulness, china disposed of the relationship.
3. Values and limitations of Source B:
Values - Published in 2007, a later view on the cold war
Limitations - Not balanced argument in terms of Chinese, doesn’t acknowledge that there were always problems between the countries.
Activity 5
How did the following lead to the split between USSR and PRC:
Civil War: USSR saw GMD as stronger
Stalin’s attitude to Mao: saw him as a threat
Korean War: Soviet wanted to be paid for materials given during Korean War
Stalin’s death: Mao thought he could be the next Stalin, but Khrushchev came along
Khrushchev’s new policies:”peaceful co-existence” with West, Hungarian uprising - mao saw this as ussr failure, secret speech: mao saw it as an attack on his leadership
see above
Taiwan: Khrushchev accused Mao of Trotskyism and fanaticism in pulling international revolution at any cost
Great Leap Forward: USSR thought it was stupid
Albania: PRC replaced USSR aid, ussr saw this as a threat
Activity 6
Source A:
Promotes revolution, against peaceful-coexistence
Source C:
“Chicken” meaning “chickened out”, calling Khrushchev out
Soviet want a different sort of Communism to China, China has no right to tell Russia to focus on peasant class revolution instead of a working class revolution
Does not look at China’s view, value: can see soviet standing on the issue during the time
Activity 8
Rainstorm waiting to come, Mao is waiting to burst, threat to West, people worried China was growing to have the potential to develop ICBMs etc and overtake USSR???
Growing problem, nobody knew when it was gonna burst.
If people were not aware of how dangerous he could be, then people would not challenge him, hostility/ignorance = minimise risk of other countries challenging maos policies
Activity 9
Aggressive USSR policies, causing distress is Czechoslovakia, USSR oppression, “bankruptcy” shown, exploitation of European countries, armed provocation towards china, promotion of dictatorship over multiple countries in order to form socialism
Because they dont like the fact that USSR is taking over their own countries/authroity
Activity 10
1.
2. China killing itself, reducing itself to nothing, internal conflict