 Nyorera kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Muna 1941, U.S. yakaita nhevedzano yezvisarudzo zvekutsigira China muhondo yayo neJapan: Zvinhu zveLend Lease zvakapihwa mushure mekunge Mutungamiri Franklin D. Roosevelt azivisa kudzivirirwa kweChina kuve kwakakosha kudziviriro yeUnited States. Mukati mezhizha, sezvo Japan yakatamira kumaodzanyemba kupinda muFrench Indo-China, U.S., Britain neNetherlands zvakatanga kurambidza kutengeswa kweoiri kuJapan, kuchigura 90 yezvinhu zvayo. Chibvumirano chacho chakatyisidzira kushanda kweHondo yeKwantung, iyo yakanga ine varwi vanopfuura miriyoni imwe vakapararira muChina. Japan yakapindura nechisimba chakanyatsorongwa musi waDecember 78, panguva imwe chete ichirwisa Pearl Harbor, Philippines, Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong, Guam, Wake Island, uye Thailand. 