Richard Nixon Opens China

Richard Nixon Opens China

by Kristie Whitlock

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Multiple Choice

Why were the Chinese interested in meeting with Nixon?

• Nixon promised them aid.

• Mao’s revolution was working.

• China’s relationship with the Soviet Union was disintegrating.

• China had just been granted Most Favored Nation status and wanted U.S. investment.

Multiple Choice

U.S. recognition of Taiwan marked a turning point in the normalization of relations with China because

• Mao Zedong considered Taiwan part of China

• Chiang Kai-shek and American forces were preparing an invasion

• China wanted to exploit Taiwan’s economy

• the United States was thinking of making Taiwan a territory

Multiple Choice

Initially, the United States refused to open diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China for all the following reasons except

• the Chinese maintained close diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union

• China declared war against the United States in the Korean Conflict

• the United States recognized Taiwan as the legitimate government of China

• the American government fought to keep the Chinese communists out of the United Nations

Multiple Choice

Before he was elected president, Richard Nixon wrote in his essay “Asia after Vietnam” that the United States should

• maintain a military presence near the Chinese border

• develop a new relationship with Communist China

• avoid economic involvement in East Asia

• encourage a counter-revolution in Communist China

Multiple Choice

All the following were major issues the United States and China needed to deal with before they could open normal diplomatic relations except

• America’s recognition of Taiwan as the legitimate Chinese government

• the role China would play in helping to bring an end to the war in Vietnam

• the economic success of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution

• the war between China and the Soviet Union

Multiple Choice

Conservative anti-communists in the United States viewed President Nixon’s visit to China as

• a positive economic step that would open markets in the world’s most populous nation

• an abandonment of Nixon’s own anti-communist credentials

• a way to bring a quick end to the Vietnam War

• a betrayal of America’s East Asian ally Taiwan