Why did the United States help China during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression era?

There are no eternal enemies, only eternal interests.

In the poll of 1938, 85% of Americans supported China's war of resistance.

On the eve of World War II, the United States was ambivalent about the European battlefield. Although there are many people who support Britain and France, there are also many who support Germany. There are many German immigrants in the midwest of the United States, and the anti-Semitic forces in the country are also very strong (Roosevelt's plan to help 20,000 Jewish children refugees was never passed). The Catholic Church resolutely opposed involvement in European affairs and even directly supported the Franco-German alliance during the Spanish Civil War. Big companies have too deep a relationship with Europe. For example, GE was acquired by a company under the German government at 1934, and certainly does not support interference. As a result, the United States passed a series of neutrality bills in 35-39, trying to stay out of the European battlefield.

Only on the Asian battlefield did Roosevelt gain almost unanimous support at home. On the one hand, American foreign policy thought that China should be the most important ally in the Pacific region from the beginning of the 20th century. Presidents like Hoover once worked in China and can speak fluent Chinese. On the other hand, the American media is quite friendly to China at this time. For example, Henry Luce, the owner of Time magazine and Life magazine, the best-selling magazines in the United States at that time, was born in China. Luce is a staunch anti-Japanese faction and a supporter of the US-China alliance. The first issue of Life magazine is estimated to sell tens of millions of people. Growing up in China, Pearl S. Buck, who wrote with China as the background, became popular at this time (The Good Earth was a best seller in 365,438+0 years, Pulitzer in 32 years and Nobel Prize in Literature in 38 years). Americans, on the other hand, like to watch the weak fight against aggressors who are stronger than themselves (Hollywood knows this).

As a result, the Neutrality Act said that the United States should not sell weapons to warring parties, so Roosevelt dared to declare that China and China would not fight, thus providing assistance to. At the same time, knowing that he would definitely go to war, Roosevelt also took advantage of domestic support and took the opportunity to silently start the armed process. In order not to offend the people, we mainly chose the navy with huge start-up resources but few recruits. )

In the end, it was Pearl Harbor that made Americans participate in the war without reservation.

To a certain extent, let the United States finally give up its isolationism that has persisted for 200 years and become the trigger point of the world police.