East German People's Army
With the end of World War II, the Allies won the final victory in the anti-fascist war, but the reckoning of the war against the fascist countries had only just begun. As the initiator of the two world wars, Germany was the first to be sanctioned, and the Allies took dividing measures against it, and the Soviet Union and the United States, Britain and France jointly occupied and administered together. But the good times did not last long, with the pulling down of the Cold War Iron Curtain, Germany was divided into two, the area occupied by The British and American countries became West Germany, and the part occupied by the Soviet Union was called East Germany. Since then, Germany has been divided into two countries.
The capital of West Germany
Germany, Italy, and Japan, as members of the Axis powers of fascism, in addition to Italy's early surrender, japan's resistance was the most tenacious, and after dealing with Germany according to the procedure, it was Japan's turn. However, Japan was not artificially divided into two like Germany, and Japan was also occupied by many countries, and this result was indeed unexpected by future generations. The result that everyone saw was that only the United States had a garrison in Japan itself, and the four northern islands were occupied by the Soviet Union, and the shadow of other countries' armies could no longer be seen.
Japan surrendered
In fact, the four victorious powers had differences in the face of the issue of occupying Japan, because they had just experienced a great war, and the entire country of Japan was already in ruins under the repeated bombardment of US bombers. Everyone does not want to occupy Japan immediately, and the Japan that takes over will be a mess, and they will have to waste time and energy to govern. Because of this, no country is willing to do this wrong first, and naturally the things that everyone occupies together will not end. As for our own domestic affairs, there is still a big pile of things to be dealt with urgently, and we are even more unwilling to follow the United States and the Soviet Union to do this kind of thing.
In pre-war Japan, militarism prevailed
After experiencing World War II, Britain's overall national strength fell sharply, and it did not have the strength to do the occupation in charge, and finally this matter fell to the United States and the Soviet Union. The original plan was for the Soviet Union to occupy Hokkaido, but later in the actual implementation stage, due to changes in the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union, the United States felt that such a division would suffer its own losses, so it changed the original plan and handed over the four northern islands to the Soviet Union, while the rest of the country belonged to the United States.
Negotiations between Russia and Japan on the return of the four northern islands
Of course, the Soviet side would not agree to the US approach, and condemned the Americans for violating their commitments, and even went to Japan to negotiate with MacArthur. MacArthur also denied this matter, refusing to admit that he had promised to divide Japan equally with the Soviet Union, and only promised the four northern islands, with a domineering appearance. Of course, the Soviets are not good stubble, and their words have revealed the breath of steel torrents, showing an attitude of defending their interests at the expense of a war.
MacArthur, then commander of U.S. forces in Japan
In the end, MacArthur was not frightened, and the final result was to insist on giving only the four northern islands, but the northern four islands were not large enough to establish a country, and could not achieve the effect of dividing Japan in two. As for why the Soviet Union accepted it so willingly at that time? On the one hand, the Soviet Union's own losses in World War II were also quite serious, coupled with the fact that the Americans had nuclear weapons, they already had a strategic advantage over the Soviet Union. Therefore, Japan was able to ensure the main integrity of the national territory in the cunning of the Americans, and it was also under the influence of many factors that Japan did not become the second Germany.
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