ABSTRACT
The Chinese Communist Party was founded in 1921. But the Soviet Union preferred to support the Kuomintang under Chiang Kai Shek, to which it gave substantial military aid to establish its power19231927, and to fight the Japanese 1937-1941 (when Stalin formed a Non- Aggression pact with Japan). In 1945 Soviet troops drove the Japanese from Northern China. In 1949the Chinese Communists came to power. From a policy of considerable Soviet aid to China in the 1950's, the two nations became increasingly hostile. By 1960 the rift was open, and soon led to armed skirmishes on the frontier
