Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
1958 period of conflict and heightened tension between mainland China and Taiwan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, also called the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was a conflict between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC). In this conflict, the PRC shelled the islands of Kinmen (Quemoy) and the Matsu Islands along the east coast of mainland China (in the Taiwan Strait) in an attempt to take control of Taiwan from the Chinese Nationalist Party, also known as the Kuomintang (KMT), and to probe the extent of the United States' defense of Taiwan's territory. A naval battle also took place around Dongding Island when the ROC Navy repelled an attempted amphibious landing by the PRC Navy.
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Part of the Chinese Civil War and the Cold War | |||||||
Taiwan Strait | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Republic of China United States | People's Republic of China | ||||||
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Chiang Kai-shek Chiang Ching-kuo Hu Lien Ji Xingwen † Zhao Jiaxiang † Zhang Jie † Dwight D. Eisenhower Nathan Farragut Twining Wallace M. Beakley Benjamin O. Davis Jr. Roland N. Smoot |
Mao Zedong Peng Dehuai Ye Fei Xu Xiangqian | ||||||
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192,000 Naval and air support | 215,000 | ||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 八二三炮戰 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 八二三炮战 | ||||||||||
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Then U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter reportedly described the conflict as the "first serious nuclear crisis".[5]