In 1950 the Korean War broke out, a war that would kill four million people. The Vietnam War raged for many years up until 1975, when South Vietnam fell to the Communist North. The threat of "Communization" loomed large and real. Taiwan is just a lonely island, and the government declared that "retreat is the road to death."
民國三十八年中共武力奪取大陸；三十九年韓戰爆發、四百萬人喪命沙場；六十四年越戰結束，越南淪為共黨國家……，「赤化」的威脅如此具體而巨大，何況台灣是座孤島，「退一步即是死路」？