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First Taiwan Strait Crisis

The First Taiwan Strait Crisis (also known as the Formosa Crisis, the 1954–1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis, the Offshore Islands Crisis, the Quemoy-Matsu Crisis, and the 1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis) was a brief armed conflict between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) focused on several ROC-held islands a few miles from the Chinese mainland in the Taiwan Strait.

First Taiwan Strait Crisis
First Taiwan Strait Crisis · 中华人民共和国未知名摄影师, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
3 Sept 1954 – 1 May 1955
Where
Taiwan Strait
Era
Contemporary

Topics

China1,046 BCE – today

Before and after

Bonn–Paris conventions1954Toussaint Rouge1954Show on timeline

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