Second Taiwan Strait Crisis

Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
Traditional Chinese	八二三炮戰
Simplified Chinese	八二三炮战
Literal meaning	August 23 shelling war
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	bā èr sān pào zhàn
Bopomofo	ㄅㄚㄦˋ ㄙㄢㄆㄠˋ ㄓㄢˋ
Wade–Giles	Pa1-erh4-san1 P'ao4-chan4
Alternative Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	金門炮戰
Simplified Chinese	金门炮战
Literal meaning	Kinmen shelling war
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	jīn mén páo zhàn
Bopomofo	ㄐㄧㄣㄇㄣˊ ㄆㄠˊ ㄓㄢˋ
Wade–Giles	Chin1-mên2 P'ao4-chan4

Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
	Part of the Chinese Civil War and the Cold War
	; Taiwan Strait
Date	23 August – 2 December 1958 ; (3 months, 1 week and 2 days)
Location	Taiwan Strait
Result	Republic of China-American victory
Territorial; changes	Status quo ante bellum
Belligerents
Republic of China; United States	People's Republic of China
Commanders and leaders
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
Strength
192,000; Naval and air support	215,000
Casualties and losses
514 ROC troops killed and missing, 2,200 injured (including 440 dead and missing and 1,911 injured for the Army alone); Civilians: 80 killed, 221 injured; 1 Landing Ship Medium sunk, 1 Landing Ship Tank damaged in the naval battle of Dongding Island;	460 PRC troops killed and wounded ; ; Several ships sunk and several more damaged in the naval battle of Dongding Island; 31 fighter jets shot down;

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 Chinese Nationalist Party, also known as the Kuomintang (KMT), and to probe the extent of American commitment to defend the Republic of China. The conflict also involved air, naval, and amphibious operations. Then U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter reportedly described it as the "first serious nuclear crisis".^[5]

^ "Anniversaire de la bataille de Kinmen : l'Unité nationale au cœur de la défense de Taiwan, selon Tsai Ing-wen". 24 August 2021. Archived from the original on 26 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
^ Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West by Shih-Shan Henry Tsai. Page 189. Published 2009
^ "The Meaning of the Taiwan Strait Crisis". www.airforcemag.com. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
^ 教育部重編國語辭典修訂本 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2019. 字詞【八二三炮戰】注音ㄅㄚㄦˋ ㄙㄢㄆㄠˋ ㄓㄢˋ 漢語拼音 bā èr sān pào zhàn
^ M.H. Halperin (December 1966). The 1958 Taiwan Straits Crisis: A Documented History. Daniel Ellsberg. pp. i–xvii.

[1] "Anniversaire de la bataille de Kinmen : l'Unité nationale au cœur de la défense de Taiwan, selon Tsai Ing-wen". 24 August 2021. Archived from the original on 26 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.

[2] Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West by Shih-Shan Henry Tsai. Page 189. Published 2009

[airforcemag.com-3] "The Meaning of the Taiwan Strait Crisis". www.airforcemag.com. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 26 September 2021.

[4] 教育部重編國語辭典修訂本 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2019. 字詞【八二三炮戰】注音ㄅㄚㄦˋ ㄙㄢㄆㄠˋ ㄓㄢˋ 漢語拼音 bā èr sān pào zhàn

[:0-5] M.H. Halperin (December 1966). The 1958 Taiwan Straits Crisis: A Documented History. Daniel Ellsberg. pp. i–xvii.

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