Research what was the Sino-Soviet split and find out the impact it had on the cold war.

It was breaking of political relationships between People's Republic of China and (PRC) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1956 to 1966. The split resulted from different interpretations and practical applications of Marxism and Leninism.

Impact:

The Cold war which was initially bi-polar (between USA and USSR) now became tri-polar (USA, USSR, and PRC).

The cultural revolution (Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 1966–1976) of China launched by  Mao Zedong.

Sino-Soviet border war

Nuclear China

Explanation:

The main impact which Sino-Soviet split had on cold war was that Western world led by USA initially (before the split) had to prevent USSR from gaining influence in the rest of the world, and counter USSR's increasing military power. However with because of this split China also started feeling itself unsafe from USSR, and started increasing its military power and political influence in the world. China testing its atomic bomb (October 1964) was also a direct result of the split.

In short Western world led by USA now had two fronts instead of previously one.  

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from thales, who is often considered the first western philosopher, to the stoics and skeptics, ancient greek philosophy opened the doors to a particular way of thinking that provided the roots for the western intellectual tradition. here, there is often an explicit preference for the life of reason and rational thought. we find proto-scientific explanations of the natural world in the milesian thinkers, and we hear democritus posit atoms—indivisible and invisible units—as the basic stuff of all matter. with socrates comes a sustained inquiry into ethical matters—an orientation towards human living and the best life for human beings. with plato comes one of the most creative and flexible ways of doing philosophy, which some have since attempted to imitate by writing philosophical dialogues covering topics still of interest today in ethics, political thought, metaphysics, and epistemology. plato’s student, aristotle, was one of the most prolific of ancient authors. he wrote treatises on each of these topics, as well as on the investigation of the natural world, including the composition of animals. the hellenists—epicurus, the cynics, the stoics, and the skeptics—developed schools or movements devoted to distinct philosophical lifestyles, each with reason at its foundation.

with this preference for reason came a critique of traditional ways of living, believing, and thinking, which sometimes caused political trouble for the philosophers themselves. xenophanes directly challenged the traditional anthropomorphic depiction of the gods, and socrates was put to death for allegedly inventing new gods and not believing in the gods mandated by the city of athens. after the fall of alexander the great, and because of aristotle’s ties with alexander and his court, aristotle escaped the same fate as socrates by fleeing athens. epicurus, like xenophanes, claimed that the mass of people is impious, since the people conceive of the gods as little more than superhumans, even though human characteristics cannot appropriately be ascribed to the gods. in short, not only did ancient greek philosophy pave the way for the western intellectual tradition, including modern science, but it also shook cultural foundations in its own time.