==Soviet aggression==
[[Image:Sovietambitions.jpg|thumb|300px|right|The darkened areas represent territorries of Soviet ambitions and designs, 1921 - 1949.]]Soviet ambitions in China as early as 1921 were to transform all northern China — [[Sinkiang]], [[Mongolia]] and [[Manchuria]] — into outright Russian dependencies and to convert what remained of China into a Communist satellite..<ref>''While You Slept : Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It'', John T. Flynn, New York : The Devin - Adair Company, 1951, [http://www.mises.org/books/whileyouslept.pdf pg. 17] pdf.</ref> The [[U.S. Department of State]] refused to regard [[Japan ]] as a bulwark against Soviet expansion in North China in the 1930s. As a matter of fact, not one protost protest was sent by the Department of State against the Soviet Union despite her absorption of [[Sinkiang]] and [[Outer Mongolia]],
while at the same time, Japan was censured for stationing troops in China. <ref>"The Explanation of the Foreign Minister at Imperial Conference," December 1, 1941, Far Eastern Military Tribunal, Record p. 26101. According to Alexander Barmine, who was in charge of the supply of Soviet arms, by 1935, Sinkiang had become "a Soviet colony in all but name." One Who Survived (NewYork: G. P.Putnam's Sons, 1945), pp. 231-232. [http://home.comcast.net/~markconrad/Sinkiang.htm#_ednref9][http://www.oxuscom.com/sovinxj.htm]</ref>