Since the emergence of The Chinese civilization, it has always been in the leading position in the world, as early as the ancient times, China is one of the four major ancient civilizations. In the Sheng Tang Dynasty, the name of the Tang Dynasty spread all over the world, and Westerners called china the lion of the East. At that time, many countries in the world sent emissaries to China to learn advanced civilization, and Japan was one of them.
However, with the evolution and development of the times, it is really in response to the words of the old ancestors, it is ten years of Hedong and ten years of Hexi. Under the rule of the Qing court, due to the implementation of the policy of closing the country to the outside world, China has gradually declined, while at the same time, the West is actively carrying out the industrial revolution and entering the capitalist era. In this way, the gap with the national strength of the West is getting farther and farther away.
From the beginning of the Opium War, the situation in our country has also become extremely dangerous. The Western powers continued to inquire about the strength of the Qing government until the later Sino-Japanese War, when Japan defeated our country. This also made the Western powers know that China at this time is no longer the fearsome lion, he has now become a paper tiger. This has given our country a shameful period of recent history.
After a period of gloom, the Second International War broke out. Japan took advantage of our battlefield, so it felt that its military strength was unprecedentedly strong, and it even tried in vain to provoke the United States, and drew up a plan to snipe Pearl Harbor, the base of the US Navy fleet.
In 1941, japan's unintended attack on Pearl Harbor caught the Americans off guard, engulfing several American warships, suffering heavy damage and losing nearly 450 aircraft. Thousands of american military personnel died and 80,000 soldiers were captured in this raid, which also made the United States angry.
At a time when Japan was proud of its achievements, the U.S. government responded to the shameful bombing. Roosevelt, who was the PRESIDENT of the United States at the time, made a solemn statement on all continents of the United States and called this time a national shame.
In 1945, the United States finally waited for this moment of shame. They dropped an atomic bomb called "Little Boy" over Hiroshima, followed by a huge mushroom cloud that "submerged" a city. But this is not the end, another atomic bomb called "Fat Man" was dropped on Nagasaki on the third day after that, and Japan once again had a nightmare, according to statistics, the number of Japanese deaths exceeded 200,000.
The lethality of the two atomic bombs did constitute an indelible memory of terror for Japan, and the Japanese named and demanded that the perpetrator of the act, "Paul Tibbetts", apologize to the Japanese citizens. But Paul said that even if he did it again, he would still make the same choice, and as for the apology, you Japanese massacre in Nanjing, China, were terrible, how could you have seen you apologize to Chinese?