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Franklin Roosevelt’s foreign policy in the years from 1937-1941 with Japan was appropriate, however, the way he deceived the American public was despicable and uncalled for. Once Japan moved aggressively against China, why did the United States defend the crumbling Chinese nation with a less than democratic leader in Chiang Kai-Shek? Even though Japan had a larger economy, and the US would have benefited from a treaty with the aggressive Japanese, FDR thought that an aggressive act anywhere is an aggressive act towards the US, so the United States did have reason to defend China. The Japanese New Order was made by the Japanese as an excuse for aggression in China and other Asian countries nearby. In 1939 after Japanese aggression in China, FDR ended the commercial treaty with Japan, which meant that the two countries were now at odds with each other. This was appropriate because Japan became an aggressor, and since attacks anywhere are a threat to the security of the Untied States, the peace treaty ended. Also, the United States defended China because Japan was prepared to go west, and S