i. The Soviet threat, 1949 - 1979
Inquiry question: How was authoritarian rule challenged? Line of Inquiry: External threats Immediately after 1949, China was supported economically by the Soviet Union. However, the underlying tensions between Stalin and Mao and between the nature of Soviet and Chinese communism quickly surfaced and by the mid 1950s, the two countries were outwardly hostile to each other. Indeed, the USSR would be a more significant...