On June 29th of the same year, an oil well named Mitsui spewed black oil, which meant the end of China's oil-poor era.
This news also caused a sensation in Japan, and many Japanese shook their heads and sighed.
You know, it was because there was no oil that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in the United States and went to war with the United States.
Because Japan is an island country, the biggest shortcoming is that it does not have enough strategic resources. 89% of Japan's resources are imported from other countries, and the largest supplier is the United States.
The strategic materials embargoed by the United States to Japan include oil. The United States not only refused to sell Japanese oil, but also blocked Japan's offshore oil transportation line to the Pacific Ocean.
Without fuel, Japanese aircraft carriers will become scrap iron piles, planes will crash, and tanks and armored vehicles will become paper tigers. Japan's advantage on the battlefield in China no longer exists, and it can only scream with anger but can do nothing.
194 1 At the end of the year, Japan's oil preparation was only a few months. In this case, Japan was anxious like ants on hot bricks, and as a result, it made a desperate attack on Pearl Harbor and went to war with the United States. And war with the United States is extremely unwilling for Japan to see.
If there is oil, Japan will certainly not risk going to war with the United States.
There is a view on the Internet that in World War II, the United States, like an unscrupulous judge, has been watching from the other side. As we all know, Japan was one of the initiators of World War II. Although the Japanese army was really strong in the entire Asian battlefield, the number of Japanese troops reached more than 7 million at that time. For a country with a population of just over 100 million, this army lineup is still huge, even twice that of China's regular army.
But Japan is an island country, and its fatal weakness is that it does not have enough strategic resources. Before World War II, 89% of Japan's resources were imported from other countries, and the largest supplier was the United States.
Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Isoroku Yamamoto, who studied at Harvard University and spent two years in the United States, resolutely opposed it. After the successful attack on Pearl Harbor, his subordinates celebrated one after another, but Yamamoto looked sad. He said anxiously, "I'm afraid I woke a sleeping giant."
In fact, it is precisely because Japan provoked the giant of the United States that it was devastated and came to a dead end.
Therefore, some people think that if Daqing Oilfield was discovered during Japan's invasion of China, Japan would definitely not go to war with the United States.
In fact, this is a one-sided view and lacks a comprehensive understanding of that period of history. Practically speaking, the war between Japan and the United States is the general trend, inevitable and a foregone conclusion, and will not be changed at all because of the discovery of Daqing Oilfield.
Why do you say that? There are several reasons. First, the conflict of values
The founders of the United States are a group of idealistic Puritans who have always despised the expansion of territory by force. They can't tolerate the war behavior of German and Japanese fascists.
When it comes to the attitude of the United States in World War II, many people think that in the early days of World War II, the United States was like an unscrupulous judge, eating from both sides, making huge war money, engaging in isolationism and watching from the other side. Later, because of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States had to end the policy of courting both sides and declare war on Germany and Japan. In fact, people who hold this view are purely ignorant.
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 194 1 12 ended. In March this year, President Roosevelt of the United States signed the Lending Act, explicitly announcing the provision of food and strategic material assistance to Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the Republic of China.
194 1 In July, the United States began to impose a trade embargo on Japan, which was tantamount to strangling Japan and forcing it into a corner.
Why does the United States choose to stand with countries such as Britain and France instead of Germany and Japan? Su Yue, Britain and France are the victims of the territorial expansion of Germany and Japan.
Since the United States regards Japan as an enemy, it has become an obstacle for Germany and Japan to dominate the world. Therefore, even if Japan discovered Daqing Oilfield during the war of aggression against China, Japan should take the initiative to challenge the United States.