Second Taiwan Strait Crisis - Modern Warfare Animated History

Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series covering modern warfare continues with a video on the second Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1958, as the US supported Taiwan was attacked by China leading to intense battles around the islands of Kinmen (Quemoy) and the Matsu Islands.

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00:00 Intro
01:32 The dawn of the crisis
07:00 The First Taiwan Strait Crisis
09:30 The aftermath of the first crisis
11:15 Before of the second crisis
15:46 The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
22:32 The crisis deescalates

#Documentary #Taiwan #China

[mr.factoid]

The pre ICBM days were wild man. The notion that we could just include nuclear strikes as part of our battle plan because the enemy had no way of seriously striking back at the US is just crazy

[jitdog]

10:38 slight inaccuracy with the map, Bangladesh didn't exist at the time, it was East Pakistan

[ramal]

The fact that the US upgraded the ROC Sabre fleet with the new heatseeking Sidewinder missile, a brand new kind of guided air to air weapon, and used it against agile MiGs over the strait to gain advantage over them, yet one of the Winders was a dud and stuck on the tail of a PLA MiG during the battle, so after the battle, obviously the PLA sent the dud missile to the Russians for study and made the Russians start to design their own version of the Sidewinder,

[ThePacificWarChannel]

Ton of fun writing this one =), rarely get to dabble in the cold war!

[yesno-cuey]

"Atomic weapons were just common bullets."
Eisenhower was an NCD member confirmed

[Lumpy]

This war is commonly known as "823 artillery battle" (823砲戰) here in Taiwan (823 = August 23rd), probably because we like naming an event by its date. (e.g. 921 earthquake = 1999 Jiji earthquake, 918 incident = Mukden incident)
Anyway, this is very detailed, great job!

[binjinhwang]

My grandpa was a ROCA junior officer who evacuated from Da-Chen island. My roommate during my graduate school years were also from a family evacuated from Da-Chen island during the first Taiwan Striate Crisis. To a lot of people in Taiwan, both crises are very relevant memory (not just stories/history). My grandpa just passed away last year and I missed him while watching this video. Nice work and hope you make another video on the 3rd Taiwan Striate Crisis (1996).

The Taoyuen airfield mentioned in the video is the Taipei International Airport (TPE) today

[doctorsoggy]

I was just in Kinmen this week. Good timing!

[glede]

Ho Chi Minh was Saigon back in the day

[wolfy]

Ｍy grandfather told me there was a ship where a military meeting was held, before the crisis started. My grandfather was a military advisor that came to Taiwan with the KMT, he was going to be on that meeting, but he wanted a family life so he quit the armies. The ship was later bombed and everyone died on the ship.
Funny enough, my grandfather's brother, became a delivery boy for Zhou Enlaihigh during the civil war, and later even become a people's representative.
Its so sad even time I read modern Chinese history. Millions died for ideology difference, all for a few man's power.

[A_WC_C]

My great-grand uncle was Deputy Minister of Defense of the ROC during this whole thing. Very tense time.

[Uzair_Of_Babylon]

Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁😀

[fromgrapevine]

Most clear presentation regarding the matter I have ever seen, thank you.

[cdbxuqy]

Chiang Kai-Shek's life is just crazy. Always coordinating things for war

[ronjohnson]

Fascinating. Easy to imagine this escalating but fortunately it stayed ... not sure the right word ... reasonably contained I guess.

[thegovernor]

Just love your videos. Detailed, thought out, and enjoyable no matter the subject

[pinkowa]

The information of film is Correct, good job.

[thefisherking]

The sheer quantity of ordnance poured into those little islands is kinda staggering.
BTW K&G, this video features an ad for a Caesar World Tour T-shirt in your store but the link is broken.. may wanna have your ad people fix that

[johnl.]

Interesting to watch how this unfolded since my grandfathers were with the KMT military so retreated with their family to Taiwan. Not knowing much Mandarin (born and raised in USA) so not much material about this.

[redrummonkey]

at 13:16 text says "F-68" but they are F-86 Sabers great episode tho😎👍