Sino-Soviet Relations - Key Dates 1958-69

2nd Taiwan Straits Crisis

K criticises The Great Leap Forward as impractical/M accuses K of being too cautious+detached over Quemoy

USSR cancels sino-soviet agreement on atomic cooperation

K visits USA - M condemns rapprochement with US

USSR cuts all economic aid + advisers to China

China gives aid to Albania after splitting from USSR/ China encourages Romania to be more independent

Meeting of leaders fails to improve relations

Khrushchev and Mao resort to bitter personal attacks

Khrushchev dismissed as leader

China explodes first nuclear bomb at Lop Nor

Zhou Enlai visits 3rd world countries to present china as leader of world revolution

USSR develops policy of isolating Chinese in international affairs - stronger dies with Mongolia, North Korea + North Vietnam

Mao's attacks on USSR leadership as revisionists increases during Cultural revolution