 Complete the following phrase:  The outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 saw massive military and economic aid start to flow into the Republic of China ROC, from the United States under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. A series of Neutrality Acts forbade American aid to countries at war. Because the Second Sino-Japanese War was undeclared, however, Roosevelt denied that a state of war existed in China and proceeded to send aid to Chiang. American public sympathy for the Chinese was aroused by reports from missionaries, novelists such as Pearl S. Buck, and Time Magazine of Japanese brutality in China, including reports surrounding the Nanking Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking. Japanese-American relations were further soured by the 