Actually the bombing raids on Japan in WW2 broke their spirit and won the war in the Pacific - so there’s that.
The bombing of Japan is an interesting topic and I think very
few people realize that over 50% of over 100 large cities
were destroy by fire-bombing. (Those stats are presented to
peak interest, and I don’t want folks to take them as gospel.
These are not misleading numbers, but the real numbers are
somewhat different.) I think they were worse than stated here.
The interesting part is this didn’t cause Japan’s leadership
to sway away from their intent to fight to the last man.
Only Hiroshima and Nagasaki finally persuaded them that
they must stop the war, give up and sign an unconditional
surrender.
Here’s some interesting information on the topic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raids_on_Japan#Firebombing_attacks
Hiroshima and Nagaski convinced the Emperor that Japan had to surrender. He made voice recordings of his surrender address for the people. Elements of the Japanese army tried to find the recordings to destroy them but they were unsuccessful. If they had found them and imprisoned the Emperor (”to save him from himself”) history could have been very different.