Comparative Study On The United States Aid Soviet And China During The Second World War

Trough illustrating the historical background of the brewing and debut ofLend-Lease, a programmatic document of the US foreign aid during World War II, thethesis makes an overview of the US foreign aid policies in wartime.American assistances to the Soviet Union and China during wartime are selectedas the main study objects of the thesis. By making comparisons in the followingaspects: from the brewing of the US foreign inflection on, the process to decide aids,aid policies and contents, attitudes of both sides of give-and-take and the evaluation ofaids, the conclusion finally obtained is as follows: American decision to assist theSoviet Union and China, the evolution of a specific assistance policy and the differentattitudes and evaluations of assistances, these are not only a reflection of America’sdifferent strategic cognition of the Soviet Union battlefield and Chinese battlefield,but a rational decision made with the changes of national interests on the basis of thejudgments of international environments and war trends.