Grand Admiral Thrawn
Donor
22 June 1941
Operation Barbarossa begins. Churchill announces aid will be sent to the USSR immediately. However, Japan, still wary of the USSR, refuses to escort any convoys, besides which Crete has depleted Force J. Ryujo is already enroute with more aircraft and fuel, while PM Yonai decides in what form Japan shall continue the war.
Late June 1941
The US announces Lend-Lease aid will be sent to the USSR and China, who has just declared war on the Axis and promises 14 divisions by the end of 1941. The timing, just as the last Japanese troops have left southern China under the 7 Powers treaty, infuriates Japan, as she has been fighting for over a year with no aid from America. Again calls are made to terminate the 2nd Anglo- Japanese Treaty, with Yonai initially supporting the calls.
Britain finally convinces both sides to cool down: Japan will receive Lend Lease (primarily raw materials), plus can spend the $1.3 billion in China instead of America. This mystifies the Americans, but readily agrees. Japan will supply 3 divisions, under the command of General Yamashita (acceptable to Britain; as he had little experience in China; Yonai, as Yamashita supported good ties with the US and Britain, and the IJA; who just wanted him out of the way) as well.
America is allowed to ship unlimited material to China and the USSR, and has the expressed goal of supplying China with 2 fighter wings and 2 bomber wings by spring 1942. Britain, desperate to relieve pressure on the Red Army (or at least grab territory while the Wermacht is busy) starts planning invasions in the Mediterranean...
Operation Barbarossa begins. Churchill announces aid will be sent to the USSR immediately. However, Japan, still wary of the USSR, refuses to escort any convoys, besides which Crete has depleted Force J. Ryujo is already enroute with more aircraft and fuel, while PM Yonai decides in what form Japan shall continue the war.
Late June 1941
The US announces Lend-Lease aid will be sent to the USSR and China, who has just declared war on the Axis and promises 14 divisions by the end of 1941. The timing, just as the last Japanese troops have left southern China under the 7 Powers treaty, infuriates Japan, as she has been fighting for over a year with no aid from America. Again calls are made to terminate the 2nd Anglo- Japanese Treaty, with Yonai initially supporting the calls.
Britain finally convinces both sides to cool down: Japan will receive Lend Lease (primarily raw materials), plus can spend the $1.3 billion in China instead of America. This mystifies the Americans, but readily agrees. Japan will supply 3 divisions, under the command of General Yamashita (acceptable to Britain; as he had little experience in China; Yonai, as Yamashita supported good ties with the US and Britain, and the IJA; who just wanted him out of the way) as well.
America is allowed to ship unlimited material to China and the USSR, and has the expressed goal of supplying China with 2 fighter wings and 2 bomber wings by spring 1942. Britain, desperate to relieve pressure on the Red Army (or at least grab territory while the Wermacht is busy) starts planning invasions in the Mediterranean...
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