✦ History

Sino-Soviet split

1956 – 1966

Part of Cold War

Followed from Khrushchev's Secret Speech

Led to Nixon's visit to China

Contemporaries

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1971
 
Sino-Soviet split
 
Khrushchev's Secret Speech
 
Nixon's visit to China

Break between China and the Soviet Union over ideology and the leadership of the communist world. It led to border clashes in 1969 and later to China's opening to the United States.

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Key people

Mao Zedong Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, Broke with Moscow · 1893–1976 Nikita Khrushchev First Secretary of the Communist Party, Led the Soviet side · 1894–1971

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