1842 In August, the British invaders forced the Qing government to sign the first unequal treaty in modern China-Sino-British treaty of nanking. The following year, Britain forced the Qing government to sign the annex of treaty of nanking.
Just after the Opium War, the United States and France, under the threat of force, forced the Qing government to sign the unequal Sino-American Wang Xia Treaty and the Sino-French Huangpu Treaty, which expanded the rights and interests of aggression.
1856, Britain and France launched the second opium war on the pretext of amending the treaty. From 65438 to 0858, Russia, the United States, Britain and France successively forced the Qing government to sign the Tianjin Treaty. 18601In late October, Britain and France forced the Qing government to sign the Sino-British and Sino-French Beijing Treaty.
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Modern cases of humiliation:
1, the British and French allied forces burned the Yuanmingyuan.
In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), after the British and French allied forces captured Beijing, they occupied Yuanmingyuan. China's defenders were outnumbered, and Wenfeng, the chief minister of Yuanmingyuan, committed suicide by throwing himself into Fuhai. Chang Ai, who lived in the garden, was scared to death.
With the support of British Prime Minister Pa Max Don, British leader Elgin ordered the burning of Yuanmingyuan. 3,500 British and French troops rushed into Yuanmingyuan and set fire to it. The fire didn't go out for three days, and the Yuanmingyuan and its nearby Qingyi Garden, Jingming Garden, Jingyi Garden, Changchun Garden and Haidian Town were all burned into ruins.
In Anyou Palace, nearly 300 eunuchs, maids-in-waiting, and craftsmen were buried in the sea of fire. Turn this world-famous garden into ruins. The fire burned for three days and nights and became a rare atrocity in the history of world civilization.
2. Nanjing Massacre
The Nanjing Massacre refers to the period from War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, China 193 1 to 1945, when the Republic of China was defeated in the defense of Nanjing, and the capital of Nanjing was 1937, 12, 13 (academic circles think that it started at/KLOC-.
Under the command of the commander of the Central China Dispatching Army Matsui Shigen and the head of the Sixth Division Gu Shoufu, the Japanese invaders carried out bloody atrocities such as organized, planned and premeditated slaughter, rape, arson and robbery in Nanjing and its vicinity for six weeks.
In the Nanjing Massacre, a large number of civilians and prisoners of war were killed by the Japanese army, and countless families were fragmented. The number of people killed in the Nanjing Massacre exceeded 300,000.
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