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First Taiwan Strait Crisis, an Uncommon card
The First Taiwan Strait Crisis was a brief armed conflict between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China focused on several ROC-held islands a few miles from the Chinese mainland in the Taiwan Strait.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 43
- Power
- 110
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 79,000
Power 110 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
First Taiwan Strait Crisis quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the First Taiwan Strait Crisis card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Shelling was subsequently ______ to the Matsu and Tachen islands.
Answer
extended. Shelling was subsequently extended to the Matsu and Tachen islands. From the First Taiwan Strait Crisis article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The crisis began when the PRC initiated heavy bombardment of Kinmen island in September ____.
Answer
1950s. The crisis began when the PRC initiated heavy bombardment of Kinmen island in September 1954. From the First Taiwan Strait Crisis article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Iván Cepeda. Iván Cepeda 310,000 · Owen Tudor 150,000 · Carnot cycle 100,000 · First Taiwan Strait Crisis 79,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The crisis began when the PRC initiated heavy bombardment of Kinmen island in September 1954.
- Shelling was subsequently extended to the Matsu and Tachen islands.
- In response, the United States and the ROC agreed to the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty in December 1954.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The First Taiwan Strait Crisis article was read about 79,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 43: each hit it takes is cut by 17 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, First Taiwan Strait Crisis (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : United States. Central Intelligence Agency, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
