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During this War, Khrushchev was supporting India against China. This event showed Mao that Khrushchev would even go as far as to team with another ally against the Chinese, further weakening the bond between the two countries.

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The Nixon Doctrine argued for the pursuit of peace especially in Asia, which greatly deepened more peaceful ties with the PRC. The rapprochement in the PRC had a significant change in the US foreign policy, and Nixon and Kissinger were celebrated for their forging of relationships with China.

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The Chinese invited the US table tennis team to play in China. This even served as a symbol to the public of the Chinese and Americans that the relationship between the two was rather secure, and was a small step further into rapprochement.

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During the conference in Beijing between China and the US, Mao and Zhou convinced Nixon to accept the 'One China' policy, and removed any troops that were in Taiwan. This shift in abandoning the democratic, capitalist Chinese nationalists shows the degree of how badly Nixon wanted to create a good relationship between the PRC and the US.

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A huge step between the relationship between China and US was taken when the US used its veto power to bring China into their sphere of influence, the United Nations. This shows that Nixon had a good view on China's reputation, and that he wanted Mao to have a more established relationship between them.

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Nixon sent 'low level signals' to the Chinese, showing that he was interested in improving relations with them, as he saw the potential power of Red China being a 'threatening force'. China on the other hand was reluctant at first, but because of the Sino-Soviet Border Conflict in play, decided to make relations with the US. This marked the beginning of Rapprochement between the two states.

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March 1969 - Sino-Soviet Border Conflict

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March 1969 - Sino-Soviet Border Conflict

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Centred on the claiming of the Zhenbao (Damansky) Island, both sides fought each other in two conflicts, almost breaking out into an all out war for both. The PRC and USSR eventually made a truce of the issue, but as a result both sides wanted to improve their relationship with the US even further than the other.

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Just like the Hungarian Revolution, the Prague Spring was another example of how Mao didn't like the ways that the USSR controlled the other authoritarian states. Mao condemned the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia and described the Brezhnev Doctrine as justification for aggression against Soviet satellites.

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Mao wanted to purge revisionist attitudes within China, While the USSR actually tried to support anyone that wanted to overthrow Mao. Because of this event, Mao now saw the Soviet Union as an enemy.

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Leonid Brezhnev takes over the Soviet Union. Mao determines that Russia will continue to run the policies of Khrushchev, and therefore had sour relations with Brezhnev as well.

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Also October 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis

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Also October 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis

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Mao criticizes Khrushchev for his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Chinese believed that the Soviet Union was unfit to lead the communist Bloc.

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No help was given from the USSR when China was facing the famine from the Great Leap Forward, maybe because China did not listen to the Soviet Advisors to not going ahead with the plan initially

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Similar to the Soviet Five-Year-Plans, Mao wanted to modernise China in the industrial and agricultural areas. The Soviet Advisors mentioned to the PRC in 1956 that this was a poor economic plan, but China did not listen to them, and as a result 61 million people died, and China's economy was shattered.

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China attacked the Soviet policy of peaceful coexistence; resulted in withdrawal of all Soviet experts in China. This further weakened the connection between the two countries.

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During the Hungarian Uprising, Khrushchev used methods of dominance to control the countries that did not want to be part of the USSR sphere of influence. Mao saw these methods in a worse way, which further decreased the reputation that China had for the USSR.

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July 1954 - Start of the Sino-Soviet split

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July 1954 - Start of the Sino-Soviet split

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As Stalin died on March 5, 1953, Khrushchev took over and started making new policies to the USSR. In a speech on July 1954, Mao accuses Khrushchev for being a "Soviet Revisionist", and didn't like the ideologies that Khrushchev had for the USSR in the future. This contradiction between methodologies led to the start of the Sino-Soviet split.

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Mao Zedong announces the new communist party, the People's Republic of China(PRC) to the world. This begins the timeline of the relationship the PRC had between the Soviet Union(USSR) and the United States(US)

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Mao visits Moscow to sign the Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance (Warsaw Pact), which gave China 300 million for 5 years at 1% interest. This alliance shows a strong connection between the leaders of the two countries, Mao and Stalin.