In the summer of 1944, the smoke of World War II was still hanging over the world, the pattern of the Pacific theater changed, and the United States gradually gained control of the sea and air, closing in on the Japanese mainland.
At the same time, the main Japanese army was still fighting in Chinese mainland, and it became a situation of being attacked by the enemy.
At this critical juncture, the United States launched a massive bombing campaign against Japan, which lasted 14 months, involving 98 cities and killing nearly a million people**.
However, this massive bombing failed to force Japan to surrender until August 6 and 9, 1945, when the U.S. military ended the fighting with two atomic bombs and Japan announced its unconditional surrender.
Prior to this, Japan experienced a number of air raids, the deadliest of which occurred on March 9, 1945, when the U.S. military carried out a massive bombing of Tokyo.
In the midst of fire, Japanese cities become purgatory on earth, 8060,000 people were killed, and countless buildings and military installations were destroyed.
Despite this, Japan still persisted in the war of resistance until the two atomic bombs.
The power of the atomic bomb cannot be ignored, and the United States successfully tested the first atomic bomb on July 16, 1945.
However, Japan** mistakenly believed that the cost of building an atomic bomb was extremely high and that the United States could not use it again, so it ignored the real threat of atomic bombs.
This led to two atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, carried out on August 6 and August 9, respectively. Nearly 80,000 people were killed and 170,000 wounded, forcing Japan to finally announce its unconditional surrender on August 15, ending World War II.
However, to understand the real reasons for Japan's surrender, it cannot be attributed to just two atomic bombs.
Economic stress was one of the main reasons why Japan could not continue fighting, and as early as 1940, Japan's economy could not support a long war.
At the same time, the strong global antipathy to Japan's aggression led to its international isolation.
Under such circumstances, Japan's resistance became more and more difficult, and finally under the threat of atomic bombs, it was no longer able to hold on to the war of resistance.
Overall, the ** of the two atomic bombs was one of the important factors that prompted Japan's surrender, but the deeper causes included economic collapse and international isolation.
This history tells us that the cost of war is enormous, and that humanity should strive to maintain peace and avoid catastrophe.