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Really? How many bullets did China produce for the European theater? Artillery shells? Warships and planes? How much food and oil did they ship? More Chinese p
by arrosenberg 4y ago
Really? How many bullets did China produce for the European theater? Artillery shells? Warships and planes? How much food and oil did they ship?
More Chinese people died. By any other measure the United States won the war via the Lend/Lease program.
- no_wizard 4y agoMao's entire army was outfitted with American weapons & vehicles in WWII which they then used to run Chiang Kai-shek out of the country to what is now Taiwan. We were initially going to arm Chiang Kai-shek but he was refusing to use the arms against the Japanese, believing he would need them for the civil war that would follow. Interesting snippet of history.
- RobotToaster 4y agoAmerica then sent us the bill, the UK didn't finish paying it until this century.
- 123pie123 4y agoand ?
- bigbillheck 4y agoHow about this for a counterfactual: if not for China, the Japanese would have seized India, and from there raise hell in Iran (oil supplies!) and put serious pressure on the Suez Canal.