China contributed to the victory in World War II
Throughout history, there have been various speculations and controversies about the reasons for Japan's surrender in 1945. Several versions of the answer have received a lot of attention, and each one is well-documented.
1.The Soviet Red Army was the first to end World War II, and they swept through the northeast, eliminating Japan's most elite resistance and leaving Japan feeling unable to resist. 2.The atomic bombs dropped by the United States caused great damage to Japan in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Japan finally chose to surrender when it saw endless despair.
3.The Kuomintang army played an important role in the Sino-Japanese War, and their fighting made it impossible for Japan to hold out and eventually surrendered. 4.The great leader *** and the people's army under his leadership, under the leadership of the first far-sighted, aroused the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the people of the whole country, and finally prompted Japan to surrender.
China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression lasted 14 years, and many believe that the Soviet Union played a crucial role in it. This is because during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, China not only faced the dilemma of a large number of warlords, a backward economy and almost zero industrial strength, but also had no other advantages, except for a large population.
Together, these factors have led to China's weakness in the face of Japan, which has already completed its full industrialization.
During the war, China was at war with warlords, and this situation raised doubts about whether China could have won the war of resistance against Japan without the assistance of the Soviet Union and the United States.
This view seems reasonable, because according to statistics, China eliminated a total of about 1.3 million Japanese invaders in the 14-year war of resistance, but when the Soviet Union's million-strong Red Army crossed the Sino-Soviet and Sino-Mongolian borders and launched an attack on the Kwantung Army stationed in the northeast, it took only one month to kill, wound and capture 680,000 Japanese invaders, which led many to believe that the Soviet Union was the key factor in Japan's abandonment of resistance.
Looking at the data, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with this view.
At the end of World War II, the United States developed a powerful atomic bomb and dropped it on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing unprecedented damage to Japan. Because the world's response to this new type of ** is not yet mature, the destructive power brought by the atomic bomb shocked the whole world.
As a result, many people believe that Japan's surrender was due to fear of the power of the atomic bomb. However, is this really the case? Is it really just because the USSR and the United States are strong that Japan cannot resist?
Without the participation of the Soviet Union and the United States, could China win the War of Resistance against Japan without external assistance?
The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression can be called the most tragic war in China's modern history, with a long time, a huge number of people, and a large war loss. Since the Japanese invaded China on September 18, 1931, the Chinese people have experienced 14 years of dire suffering, and this war is related to the survival of the Chinese nation.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, what was the situation in China? It can be roughly summed up as "falling apart". In the northeast, there are Zhang Xueliang, the son of Zhang Zuolin, the "king of the Northeast", Ma Jiajun and Sheng Shicai in the northwest, Yan Xishan in Shanxi, Han Fuyu in Shandong, and Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangxi and other places also have their own forces.
Even the Nanjing people, who wanted to unify the whole country at that time, were full of internal contradictions, and the various factions did not belong to each other, and could not form a unified external force. This situation has led to intrigue between various forces, and even in the face of Japanese aggression, they will set up stumbling blocks for each other, which has given little Japan an opportunity to take advantage of the situation and swallow up the land of China.
Japan's invasion of China was initially very smooth, and at the time of the September 18 Incident, only a few thousand Japanese troops occupied the three eastern provinces defended by 300,000 troops in the northeast, which gradually swelled Japan's ambitions.
After the July 7 Incident and the September 18 Incident, Japan launched an all-out aggression against China. Despite the bravery and tenacity shown by the Kuomintang in the battle, the combat effectiveness of the Kuomintang did not reach the ideal state, and the victory rate against the Japanese army was extremely low.
Except for a few battles such as the Battle of Taierzhuang and the victory of Wanjialing, which achieved certain advantages, most of the battles ended in defeat, and there were even cases where the number of troops was greater than that of the Japanese army.
This successive defeats made the arrogance of the Japanese army even more arrogant, and they ran rampant and domineering in China, creating one incident after another. At its most arrogant, a Japanese brigade even dared to chase a Chinese division.
In just two years, northern, central, and southern China all fell into the hands of the Japanese invaders, and China's remaining industrial base was wiped out. In this predicament, the traitors led by Wang Jingwei began to act.
They continued to spread China's "theory of the death of the country" in an attempt to make the sons and daughters of China give up resistance and surrender to the Japanese invaders.
At the critical moment of the War of Resistance Against Japan, some pro-British and American groups put forward the so-called "theory of quick victory," believing that as long as China held out for a few more months, Britain and the United States and other Western powers would intervene in Japan's war of aggression against China, thereby liberating the Chinese people.
However, they did not see that Germany was sweeping the European theater and the United States was making a lot of war money, so who would care about the life and death of China? In May 1938, the great leader *** published "On Protracted War", which positively answered the acute problems existing in the War of Resistance against Japan and refuted the erroneous orientation of the "theory of national destruction" and the "theory of quick victory".
At this time, the all-out war of resistance had been raging for more than a month, and Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Tianjin and other places had fallen into the hands of the Japanese invaders, and ** was preparing for the Battle of Wuhan a month later.
However, it was in this extremely unoptimistic situation that ** firmly stated that the final victory must belong to China.
On Protracted War: Japan was forced to launch a large-scale war due to the intensification of internal and external contradictions, and the regressive and barbaric nature of its war doomed it to defeat. China, on the other hand, was unable to match Japan at this time, but China's War of Resistance was progressive and just, and it was rich in land and resources, and had the ability to drag Japan down through a protracted war.
At the same time, China's multi-help posture in the international arena also brought great advantages to the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan. In general, although China is weak, it will win a protracted war with a theoretical basis.
In the smoke of the War of Resistance Against Japan, we can clearly see the foresight and wisdom of the world. From the perspective of the global big picture, he has insight into the intricacies of the international environment, and goes beyond the simple analysis of the victory and defeat between China and Japan.
Therefore, he firmly declared that "China will not perish." At the same time, when he analyzed the causes and consequences of Japan's provocation of the war, he found that Japan's real goal was to monopolize the Southwest Pacific, which needed to be achieved by invading the Philippines, Siam, Vietnam, the Malay Peninsula and the Dutch East Indies.
And this was three years before Japan provoked the Pacific War. This forward-looking insight is rare.
At a time when the Japanese army was plundering resources everywhere and trying to crush China, it put forward three key elements for China to eliminate Japanese imperialism: first, to complete the Chinese anti-Japanese united front, second, to complete the international anti-Japanese united front, and third, to promote the revolutionary movement of the Japanese people and the colonial people.
Among these three elements, the completion of China's anti-Japanese united front is the most crucial, because it is a protracted war. The three stages of protracted warfare have been carried out: the first stage is the period of the enemy's strategic offensive and our strategic defense, the second stage is the period of the enemy's strategic conservatism and our preparations, and the third stage is the period of our strategy and the enemy's strategic retreat.
The ** of these stages coincides with the actual situation.
In the long history of Sino-Japanese confrontation, with excellent foresight, the role of the United States and the Soviet Union in the war was accurate. Although the United States and Japan were close at that time, and Japan received a large amount of military supplies from the United States, its goal was to monopolize the Southwest Pacific, so the United States and Japan eventually went to opposition.
At the same time, Japan's coveting of the Soviet Far East also made it impossible for the Soviet Union to sit idly by and watch its wanton aggression against China. It turned out that **'s foresight was accurate.
A few years later, Japan's strategic resources were exhausted, provoking the Pacific War, and the contradictions between the United States and Japan intensified. The United States eventually dropped atomic bombs on Japan to force it to surrender. And the Soviet Union, after defeating Germany, sent a million-strong army to attack Japan's Kwantung Army in northeastern China and the Korean Peninsula.
It is true that the Japanese army, which launched the Southeast Asian War by bicycle, had a certain military strength, but the key to China's victory in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression did not lie in the assistance of other countries. The assistance provided by the United States, the Soviet Union, and other international powers is only an additional condition for China's victory, and the assistance they provide is based on their own interests and on the basis that China has already achieved major victories.
With their indomitable spirit, the Chinese people have dragged the Japanese army into the quagmire of a protracted war. Even without international aid, China has the ability to eventually defeat Japan, only at a much greater cost.
As a large country with a vast territory, we have sufficient resources and capabilities to withstand the pressure of long-term warfare. We believe that as long as the Chinese people are united, we will be able to win this war and drive out the aggressors.
China's victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was inseparable from the unity and stubborn resistance of the Chinese people. On this basis, the final attack of the USSR and the United States was also achieved. For example, when the Soviet Union's million-strong army attacked the Kwantung Army, the Kwantung Army at that time could no longer be compared with the "flower of the imperial army" in the early days of resistance against Japan, and was only an empty shell.
In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kwantung Army had 31 infantry divisions, 11 infantry and tank brigades, 1 death squad brigade and 2 aviation armies, with a total strength of about 1.2 million people.
However, in the year of the Soviet offensive, the total strength of the Kwantung Army had fallen to 700,000 after heavy attrition, of which more than 200,000 were newly recruited Japanese nationals, and many of them were old, weak, sick and disabled.
In addition to the sharp reduction in the number of troops in the Memorial Hall of the Victory and Surrender of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japan, the Kwantung Army's equipment is seriously insufficient, and many soldiers can only take turns to carry guns; similarly, after the United States dropped the atomic bomb, Japan also realized that it no longer makes much sense to continue to resist stubbornly on the Chinese battlefield, so the strikes of the Soviet Union and the United States can be said to have played a role in icing on the cake.
What really prompted Japan to give up resistance was the firm will of the Chinese people and the desperate struggle of the people's army under the leadership of the Chinese invaders against the Japanese invaders.