The Sino-Soviet split was a milestone in Cold War international relations and one of the most poignant developments of the 20th century, transforming the Cold War and world stage from a bilateral confrontation to a trilateral one. This rearrangement of global power centres led to the breaking of Communism as a monolith in the eyes of the West, and to Mao’s eventual reconciliation with the United States, marked by Henry Kissinger and American journalists becoming the first Americans allowed into China since 1949 and then a year later by President Richard Nixon’s visit to Beijing. However there are many factors that can be used to explain this divide of the Communist world during the mid-twentieth century, and scholars are somewhat divided on the matter. What led to the Sino-Soviet split?

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