so lets say cooler heads prevail and Japan doesnt invade CHina a second time. Now what happens to Japan. How would this effect japan in WWII what happens
For you, the second sino-japanese war began in 1931 or in 1937 ? It seems, it is rather 1937...
If it's 1937...
For China :
- the KMT will be able to crush the CCP and Mao will be killed by the Nationalists or if he was able to flee to the USSR, he will be killed in one of the Staline purges of foreign communists,
- the NRA will not lost its best divisions and a very valuable officers corps during the battle of Shanghai and will be able to continue to reform with german help,
- Nationalist China will continue to reform and the KMT will continue to established its rules on the entire country,
- China in the anti-Comitern Pact or in the Axis is a nonsense as the USSR was a KMT ally since the 20's
For Japan :
- Japanese military efforts will be concentrate in Manchuria to favorise mass immigration of japanese settlers,