What the records say
- When
- 23 Aug 1958 – 23 Nov 1958
- Kind
- Interstate war
- Deaths
- 1,800
- Coordinates
- 24.45° N, 118.35° E
- Total battle deaths
- 1800
Placed approximately by the source.
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
1958 conflict between the PRC and the ROC
The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, also known as the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was a conflict between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC). The PRC shelled the islands of Kinmen (Quemoy) and the Matsu Islands along the east coast of mainland China in an attempt to take them from the ROC, governed by the Kuomintang (KMT), and to probe the extent of American commitment to defend the Repub…
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The source
- COW Inter-State War Data v4.0Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation
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