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  2. First Taiwan Strait Crisis - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Taiwan Strait - Wikipedia

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    Each year, Taiwan's rivers carry up to 370 million tons of sediments into the sea, including 60 to 150 million tons deposited into the Taiwan Strait. [14] During the past ten thousand years, 600 billion tons of riverine sediments have been deposited in the Taiwan Strait, locally forming a lobe up to 40 m thick in the southern part of the Taiwan ...

  4. Republic of Formosa - Wikipedia

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    When the news of the treaty's contents reached Taiwan, a number of notables from central Taiwan led by Qiu Fengjia decided to resist the transfer of Taiwan to Japanese rule. On 23 May, in Taipei, these men declared independence, proclaiming the establishment of a free and democratic Republic of Formosa.

  5. Tiger II - Wikipedia

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    It was also known informally as the Königstiger [9] (German for Bengal tiger, lit. ' King Tiger '). [10] [11] Contemporaneous Allied soldiers often called it the King Tiger or Royal Tiger. [citation needed] The Tiger II was the successor to the Tiger I, combining the latter's thick armour with the armour sloping used on the Panther medium tank ...

  6. History of Taiwan - Wikipedia

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    In the Late Pleistocene, sea levels were about 140 metres (460 ft) lower than at present, exposing the floor of the shallow Taiwan Strait as a land bridge. [6] A concentration of vertebrate fossils has been found in the channel between the Penghu Islands and Taiwan, including a partial jawbone designated Penghu 1, apparently belonging to a previously unknown species of genus Homo, dated ...

  7. A US invasion of Taiwan in WWII would have been a ... - AOL

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    Here, an M60A3 tank fires during a Taiwanese exercise. Daniel Ceng/Anadolu via Getty Images The US considered invading Japanese-occupied Taiwan in World War II.

  8. United States Taiwan Defense Command - Wikipedia

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    The United States Taiwan Defense Command was originally formed as the Formosa Liaison Center (founded in 1955 after the signature of the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty of December 1954 and the First Taiwan Strait Crisis of Sept. 1954). In November 1955, the FLC became the Taiwan Defense Command.

  9. Taiwan gets its first US Abrams tanks as it prepares for a ...

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    According to Taiwan's semi-official Central News Agency, the last tank delivery from the US to Taiwan began in 1994. However, the US approved the possible sale of 108 Abrams tanks to Taiwan in 2019 .