Abstract

Although Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan on December 7 of 1941, the United States Government carried out the grand strategy of ‘Europe First’ which aimed to defeat Germany primarily. This is the combination of some factors, such as geopolitics, cultural concepts and traditional long-term strategy, not the product of hasty response to the situation, thus to a certain extent inevitable. For China, however, who made the greatest sacrifice, its strategic status in the Anti-Fascist War undermined, consequently wartime contributions of Chinese were not evaluated fairly and deservedly.

Published on Economic and Social History Review, Issue 4, 2015.