The People’s Republic of China and North Korea: Ideology and Nationalism, 1949-2023
Multiple Choice Questions
Exam Questions
Discussion Questions
How did the Chinese relationship with the Soviet Union influence China in the 1950s?
Compare and contrast Chinese and Soviet development policies after 1945.
Why did China increasingly differ with the Soviet Union from the late 1950s?
What was China’s relationship with the developing world in the 1960s?
Why did the Cultural Revolution lead to fear of Soviet intervention in China in the late 1960s?
Explore the changes in Sino-American relations between the 1940s and 1970s.
How did Deng alter Chinese policies after the death of Mao?
Why did the Tiananmen Square protest movement occur?
What effect did the policy of “juche” have on development in North Korea?
Why was there hope for détente in the Korean peninsula in the 1990s?
Exam Questions
When and why did the Sino-Soviet split occur?
Why did Sino-American relations improve in the late 1960s?
Compare and contrast the post-1945 development of North and South Korea.
Weblinks
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB175/japan2-14.pdf – text of 1991 US statement on North Korean nuclear weapons threats
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1947-ccp-statement.asp – text of CCP statement 1947
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1964romania-china.asp – text of 1964 statement on Sino-Soviet split
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1967pravda-china.asp – text of Pravda statement on Chinese anti-Soviet policy 1967
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/flashbks/china/fairbank.htm – text of early article on the need for a US policy towards China 1957
http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/111245 – text of Sino-Soviet negotiations for alliance in response to Japanese threat
http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/118064 – text of Nixon-Mao Zedong discussion on US-Chinese relations 1972
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB38/document6.pdf – text of 1963 document on potential US-Soviet cooperation in policy towards China
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB233/2-14-71.pdf – text of 1971 discussions about next steps in Sino-American relations
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/deng-xiaoping/1978/141.htm – text of 1978 four modernizations speech
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