hmmm, slightly off topic but- just today read a book on History's most popular lies- which included a chapter exposing the myth that Mao & the Communists were the force most responsible for defeating Japan in China- which was shown as being completely false due to the fact that Mao actually spent the vast majority of his time simply marshalling the strength of his Communist forces in his remote corner of China while attempting as much as poss to avoid direct conflict with
Jap forces- which led Chiang's Nationalist forces to engage in the bulk of the fighting against the IJA. Mao also used propaganda during & after WWII to portray Chiang as grossly corrupt, inefficient & incompetent (which was partially true) who didn't do much to fight the
Japs (which wasn't)- which also was uncritically accepted by US leaders such as Vinegar Joe Stilwell & even Pres Truman, who cut back on support of the Nationalists after 1945. The big WI asked was of course, if the US had still stood strongly behind the Nationalists after the war, whether China would've avoided falling to the Communists in 1949, with the resultant effects of a strong US ally in East Asia, no debilitating wars in Korea & Vietnam, no annexation of Tibet, & no massive man-made disasters in PRC such as the Great Leap Forward.
in support:
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/13999.html