On August 15, 1945, Japan surrendered, the War of Resistance Against Japan ended, the blood-stained land of China restored the peace of the past, this history has passed away with time, when people talk about it, they will wonder what force made Japan surrender
atomic bomb?
Soviet troops?
In my opinion, neither!
After Japan's surrender, a riddle appeared, Japan surrendered to fight a historical figure, the most famous is the following four answers, Qu Yuan Su Wu Jiang Gan gonggong
Qu Yuan meant that Japan had yielded under the atomic bomb
Su Wu means that the Soviet Union sent troops to sweep up the Japanese army
Jiang Gan is saying that the Kuomintang contributed
Co-working is the result of the joint efforts of the anti-war forces of all sides.
Each force thinks of its own historical record,
They all emphasize their decisive role in it
Then we must look at the problem objectively, first of all, to see how Japan views surrender
At the beginning of 1945, some people in Japan advocated surrender, and in February, the Japanese Emperor and the Wartime Cabinet received a copy submitted by the former wartime Prime Minister, and the Konoe Kamibun text mentioned that Japan's economy had completely collapsed because of the war
If the war continues, their people at the bottom will not be able to accept it at all, and the call for anti-war will become louder and louder, and it will inevitably threaten the Japanese national system
It is also true that Japan was financially bankrupt in 1939 and was running on so-called public debt, that is, squeezing out the people
By the end of 1939, ordinary Japanese people had only seven or two grains a day to feed, creating a whole generation of Japanese people who were less than one meter and six meters tall, from 37 to 41 years, Japan squeezed every penny of the people dry, spent 60 billion yen to invade us, and from 37 to 45 years, the total cost of the Japanese navy was more than 30 billion yen
Japan's wartime prime minister Konoe was a typical real faction, forming an ally with Germany and Italy, which was what he advocated, but when facing the United States, Konoe felt that it was time to surrender and could not go to war with the United States, but the emperor's imperial council decided to go to war against the United States
Konoe disagreed, but was ordered to die, and if he did not follow the United States, he would step down, so Konoe stepped down, Hideki Tojo came to power, and the Pacific War broke out
Fast forward to June 1945, the militant, Kido Koichi, submitted to the Emperor and the Cabinet the Draft Plan for Controlling the Crisis Situation.
The content is very clear, as the battlefield is getting bigger and bigger, Japan at that time has no ability to continue the war, so in June 1945, all the Japanese high-level were ready to surrender, but still thinking of launching a final war, which could cause huge casualties to the American and British Allies, so that the Second World War could be ended decently
For a time, the Japanese soldiers shouted, one hundred million jade shattered, the local decisive battle, and this is just a slogan, pretending to be a slogan with the Allies, to know that the Japanese population at that time, in addition to the battlefield deaths, just one hundred million people
Moreover, as an island country, Japan did not have the conditions for a major armageddon on its own, and this was just waiting for the Soviet Union to enter, when the "Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty" had not yet been abrogated
The Japanese felt that they had strictly abided by the treaty and did not help the German army to attack the Soviet Union, which led to the victory of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, and now that they were planning to surrender, they thought of letting the Soviet Union intervene to regulate the war between China and Japan and the United States and Japan
Just wait, wait, wait, for a month the Soviet Union did not move, but waited, "Potsdam Proclamation", the full name of "China, the United States, britain and the three countries to urge Japan to surrender potsdam proclamation"
At the announcement, we and the United States and Britain were very fiercely worded, and we did not consult with the Japanese at all, and we wanted them to immediately lay down their arms and surrender now, but Japan did not think so
Because as of the Potsdam Proclamation on July 26, the Soviet Union had not yet entered the scene to clash with Japan, which made Japan have the association that according to the conventions of the First World War, the defeated countries were to be dismembered
For example, the Ottoman Empire and Prussia, which is why Japan knows that it cannot be defeated, but it does not surrender, they do not want to be decomposed
Moreover, the Japanese emperor will also be banned, but the Potsdam Proclamation does not mention the ban on the Japanese emperor and the Japanese national system, is there still room for negotiation?
At that time, Japanese soldiers all thought so, why did the Potsdam Proclamation only mention the surrender of Japanese soldiers, but did not mention the emperor and the national system?
There have always been two rumors on this issue, the first is that the British Queen was still there, thinking that if the Japanese Emperor was gone, then the British Royal Family should also be gone, in order to maintain the legitimacy of the monarchy, so the British proposed not to ban the Emperor
But it should be known that Britain was the victorious country in World War II, and the United States and the Soviet Union were called the world's three giants
Need to preserve the royal family of a defeated country to prove its legitimacy?
Moreover, at that time, the bud of the world independence movement had not yet been drilled, and no one would challenge the British monarchy at all, which was obviously unreliable
And the remaining one is that when discussing how to deal with Japan, Chiang Kai-shek put forward the idea of keeping the emperor and only killing the warlords.
Now there is no way to prove both of these claims, and the Japanese feel that they do not have to disintegrate anyway, so they want to negotiate and earn more benefits for themselves
According to the international practice at that time, when one party issued a warning to the other party for a time limit of surrender, the other party had to give a reply, whether to surrender immediately or fight to the death
The Japanese did not choose either, thinking they were very clever, and the reply was that we ignored the Potsdam Proclamation and could neither say that Japan resisted nor that Japan surrendered
Japan's attitude brought them an atomic bomb
On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, and harvested 200,000 Japanese people, and Japan was shocked, according to their ideas, new conditions should be proposed, how can the atomic bomb be dropped?
However, Japan still did not surrender, but held a meeting, and they had also studied such things as atomic bombs, so they knew very well the power of atomic bombs and knew that atomic bombs were difficult to mass-produce, so they thought of betting on how many atomic bombs the United States could throw into Japan
It is not that Japan has a big heart, but we all overestimated the power of the atomic bomb at that time, because the research on nuclear weapons was not complete, it could only fill less than 30 kilograms of nuclear fuel, and it was not energy production, so that people really felt the power of nuclear weapons
In 1961, the Soviet Union developed a tsarist hydrogen bomb that could push the entire Eurasian continent south by nearly 1 centimeter
Moreover, before the atomic bomb was dropped, Japan had already suffered several years of bombing by the United States, and the more famous Li Mei burned Tokyo, and the damage was much greater than the atomic bomb, and they believed that as long as the American atomic bomb was not a lot, they could still hold on
However, on August 9, the Soviet Union sent troops, originally the Soviet Union did not intend to attack Japan, but the "Yalta Conference" where the big three met, the conditions for the Soviet Union were very rich, and Japan had already eaten the Atomic Bomb of the United States, and when Japan surrendered, the Soviet Union would not be able to gain any benefits
So the official declaration of war on Japan by the Soviet Union, Japan instigated, the civilian officials thought that they should quickly surrender to save their lives, the military thought that the Japanese Kwantung Army was invincible, but it had not yet touched the Soviet Union, the second atomic bomb of the United States exploded, and it was even released that they still had the atomic bomb to completely blow up Japan
So it was the civil and military system that began to quarrel, but in the end it was up to the emperor, and the decision of the Japanese emperor did not appear in the official data
Instead, the Japanese civilian officials recalled after the war, when the emperor kept his head down, and finally said with some dryness and helplessness, after I conducted a considerable review of the situation in the world and the current situation at home, I did not think that the war could continue
Immediately after the Japanese Emperor issued a declaration on August 15, 1945, Japan surrendered, according to the previous Japanese historical data combing, the whole process, the two atomic bombs of the United States, the Soviet Union's declaration of war on Japan, did not affect the will of the Japanese high-level
Earlier, we also mentioned that from February 1945 to June 1945, the Japanese high-level had already unified their opinion, and Japan could not continue to maintain the war, so why did Japan lose? What caused their domestic economic collapse?
In 1937, Japan invaded China in an all-round way and achieved its goal, when the warlords were divided and Chiang Kai-shek's army was large, but his slogan was, "Outside must first be inside, in disguise, there must be no resistance, but the outside must first be inside."
This led to the Japanese army being able to invade such a large territory in the early stage, in May 1938, when the all-out war of resistance had begun for 10 months, whether the war of resistance could be victorious or not, there were two views, one was a quick victory, thinking that Japan would soon be driven back, and the other was the destruction of the country, and it was very pessimistic that there was no salvation
Seeing that Japan was encroaching step by step, but there was no birth in The country, a correct and far-sighted idea, at this time" turned out to be "On Protracted War"!
Standing in China's five-thousand-year history, to look at Japan, when Japan from the financial technology military, are far ahead of us, in the face of all aspects of the enemy is stronger than us, our failure is inevitable to solve?
Some people choose to kneel, dedicate resources and wealth, cut the land to pay compensation, and make the enemy more powerful, and some people choose to fight, do not surrender and do not cut the land, that is, to fight with you a power that relies on borrowing money to start a war, and fight to the end!
As long as he does not surrender and does not kneel, he will only become weaker and weaker, as long as he persists and fights persistently!
He was bound to collapse, so the War of Resistance Against Japan was not a quick war or a subjugation of the country, but a protracted war
It is necessary to establish base areas behind enemy lines and persist in guerrilla warfare, and during the period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, at the critical moment of national peril, the outstanding sons and daughters of the Chinese nation stepped forward and shouted the slogan of "swearing to die not to be a slave to the country."
The scattered people of old China were gathered and united, creating a pattern of resistance with the participation of the whole people and the unity of will, setting up a spiritual monument to the Chinese nation that stands in the annals of history, and facing an unprecedented crisis in the survival of the nation
The patriotic enthusiasm of the Chinese people burst forth like a volcano, and all the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation united in their will to fight for the nation, for the motherland, for dignity, gathered their mighty strength, and plunged themselves into this great struggle that has a bearing on the life and death of the nation
The ancestors threw their heads and spilled their blood, the mountains and rivers were exotic, and they did not wear the sky together!
I hope that after everyone understands this period of history, others ask what force made Japan surrender, you do not say that it is because of the American atomic bomb, the Soviet Union sent troops, but straightened his waist and told him that it was by relying on the persistence and indomitability of our Chinese nation that we defeated this invading enemy!
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