1. Importance of US

• 1. Importance of US
• One way US utilised its vast resources after PH in short time despite being unprepared back then.

  1. People, factories, shipyards, farms and Hollywood actors / movie industry joined war efforts
• Another way US utilised its resources.

  
  

  Within months, US rebuilding fleet and training troops + produced weapons and essential equipments - Axis' war productions never matched Allies'

• Third way US utilised its resources: 1942 onwards - US supported allies with


  1. Food

  2. Raw materials

  3. Industrial equipment

  4. Weapons and ammunition

  5. Troops

  6. Ships

  7. Aircrafts
• Significance of supplying allies with all those resources?

  • Ensured allied soldiers always had best supplies and equipment when in combat (higher survival rate)
• Last way US utilised its resources: US production between 1941 and 1945


  • 250k aircrafts
  • 90k tanks
  • 350 naval destroyers
  • 200 submarines
  • 5.6k merchant ships
• By 1944:

  • US producing almost 1/2 of weapons made globally (more than twice of G and J production combined
  • Significance: Allies always had quick resupply / resources and equipment - outlast enemy
• Who did the US supply in the Pacific war and what did US supply?

  • Who: Guomindang (GMD)/Kuomintang (KMD)
  • What: huge amounts of money, weapons and other aid - help them fight Japs.
• What are 2 other examples of resistance movements in Asia US supplied?

  • Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA)
  • Viet Minh
• US supplied Britain for them to fight where?

  • Burma
  • New Guinea