-March 1940,
The U.S. began large-scale loans to China, but not military loans.
- July 1940,
The U.S. began an embargo on strategic goods to Japan.
- In 1941,
The U.S. passes Lend-Lease, and President Roosevelt declares that Lend-Lease applies to China.
-1943,
The U.S., Britain, and China adopt the Cairo Declaration, which stipulates that land invaded by Japan in China must be returned to China after the war.
-During World War II,
aided the National Government with large quantities of weapons and equipment.
Also organized the China Aid Volunteer Flying Corps (Flying Tigers) to help China against the Japanese Air Force.
After the interruption of the Yunnan-Burma Highway, the U.S. Air Force opened up the Hump Route at great cost to support China's fight against Japan.
-After the end of the war,
the U.S. continued to aid China (the national government) by helping to build factories, schools, hospitals, and other facilities, as well as providing large loans.
-After the Sino-Soviet war,
The US began to aid China heavily, mainly to open a gap in the socialist camp and thus contain the Soviet Union.
- Wenchuan Earthquake,
Aid from the US consisted of many sources:
1. U.S. Government: $500,000?
2. U.S. military: $1.6 million Goods
3. U.S. civilian: too many to count
4. Red Cross: $10 million
Relief efforts have totaled more than $23 million.
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U.S. Moral Aid to China during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression
China received two loans from the U.S. in 1940, the Dianxi Loan and the Equalization Fund Loan.
On March 7, 1940, the U.S. allocated 20 million U.S. dollars in the name of capital increase in the Export-Import Bank loan with China.
On September 13, 1940, after Chinese Finance Minister Song Ziwen made several efforts to lobby, the United States agreed to give China a new loan of $25 million.
On November 29, 1940, U.S. President Roosevelt instructed Morgenthau to give China a $50 million Equalization Fund loan within 24 hours, and also asked Jones to provide another $50 million in commercial loans from the Export-Import Bank.
On November 30, 1940, a statement of financial aid to China was issued. The news reached China and added morale and conviction to the struggling Chinese anti-Japanese forces.
In July 1940, the U.S. imposed a total ban on the export of scrap steel to Japan, and the embargo on Japan was expanded to include all arms and ammunition, military equipment, aircraft parts, optical instruments, metal processing machinery and various strategic materials.
In December 1940, U.S. President Roosevelt authorized the expansion of the embargo on Japan to include brass and pure copper, which were urgently needed for the manufacture of Japanese munitions.
In March 1941, the U.S. passed Lend-Lease, and China was included as a Lend-Lease borrower. U.S. President Roosevelt agreed to China's request for assistance. Clearly announced that the United States will be unconditional full assistance to Britain, China and other countries. U.S. Secretary of State Hull rejected Japan's diplomatic proposal for the U.S. to recognize Japan's exercise of authority over Chinese territory and to stop aiding China, but instead forcefully demanded that Japan withdraw its troops from China and declared that this was the basis for U.S.-Japanese negotiations.
On April 10, 1941, U.S. President Roosevelt secretly issued an order allowing U.S. reserve officers and retired members of the Army and Navy Air Forces to participate in the U.S. Volunteer Force. China purchased 100 American airplanes at a favorable price. The British had the right of first refusal on these planes, and it was the Americans who made the planes arrive in China by working with Britain, which was in dire need of them.
On April 15, 1941, U.S. President Roosevelt summoned Chinese Finance Minister Soong Tzu-wen. Two days later, he formally informed the National Government that he had approved the first batch of military equipment worth 45 million dollars as Lend-Lease material for China.
On May 6, 1941, the U.S. government designated Curie as the person in charge of implementing the Lend-Lease program of assistance to China.
On May 18, 1941, the first batch of China aid materials worth 1.1 million US dollars, including 300 automobiles, was shipped from New York to China.
On May 25, 1941, the U.S. once again approved aid to China worth $45.4 million in arms and ammunition.
On June 9, 1941, the first U.S. support team of 110 pilots and 150 mechanics and other ground medical personnel left for China by plane. Later, President Roosevelt ordered the USS Salt Lake City and USS Northampton to escort the second group of aid workers to China.
On July 23, 1941, Roosevelt went a step further by authorizing Curie to equip and man a 500-aircraft Chinese air force at Chiang Kai-shek's request.
On July 22, 1941, the United States terminated all negotiations with Japan.
On July 26, 1941, the U.S. government froze Japanese assets in the United States.
On August 1, 1941, the Flying Tigers were officially established.
On August 2, 1941, the U.S. government announced a total embargo on oil to Japan. On the same day Britain and the Netherlands also banned the export of copper, jute, pig iron, nickel, cobalt and other materials to Japan, and on August 7 froze Japanese assets.
This series of draconian measures made it difficult for Japan to tolerate, especially the embargo on oil. on August 9, 1941, the Japanese Commander-in-Chief formally notified: "Suspend this year's attempt to exercise force in the north." Abandon attempts to attack the Soviet Union.
On August 9-14, 1941, Roosevelt and Churchill signed the Atlantic Charter, announcing a vision of the world order and unanimously determining that the purpose of the war was to oppose fascism and defend democracy. (Fascism, of course, included Japan.)
On September 6, 1941, the Emperor of Japan personally took part in the decision "not to resign from the determination to fight against the United States".
On November 7, 1941, informed of Japan's determination to fight the United States, the U.S. formulated a memorandum: 1. not to send troops to help China; 2. American volunteer forces should help China to the maximum extent possible; 3. to strengthen aid to China; 4. to issue an ultimatum to Japan.
Flying Tigers
The Flying Tigers (Flying Tigers), known as the "China Air Force American Volunteer Air Corps for China", were established in April 1942 and disbanded in April 1946 after the end of the war.
From the end of 1941 to July 1942, the Flying Tigers shot down nearly 300 Japanese planes during the war in China, and 24 of them were killed or disappeared in the battle.
From May 1942 to September 1945, the American Volunteer Air Corps, with a limited strength of three squadrons and dozens of planes, was responsible for international transportation in the Chinese battlefield. It was responsible for the air defense of Kunming and Rangoon, the hubs of the northern and southern ends of the Yunnan-Burma Highway, the main artery of international transportation in the Chinese theater of operations, and also helped to deliver supplies to China during this period.