Second Taiwan Strait Crisis

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The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis was a 1958 military confrontation between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China over offshore islands near Taiwan, which drew in U.S. involvement and heightened Cold War tensions in East Asia.

Aliases (2)

1958 Quemoy artillery bombardment ×1
Formosa Air Battle ×1

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Republic of China Air Force → conflict → Second Taiwan Strait Crisis →

Seventh Fleet → notableOperation → Second Taiwan Strait Crisis →

subject surface form: "United States Seventh Fleet"

this entity surface form: "Formosa Air Battle"

Taiwan Strait → sceneOf → Second Taiwan Strait Crisis →

Kinmen → siteOf → Second Taiwan Strait Crisis →

this entity surface form: "1958 Quemoy artillery bombardment"