Beginning of the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis

Date: August 23, 1958 • Location: Jincheng, Taiwan, Province of China

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1958.

Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.

The Chinese Civil War was fought between the government of the Republic of China (ROC), led by the Kuomintang (KMT), and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Armed conflict continued intermittently from 1 August 1927 until Communist victory that led to the Kuomintang's retreat to Taiwan on 7 December 1949.