This second part of Supporting the Motherland tells the stories of individuals and community organizations in the San Diego Chinese and greater San Diego communities who united together in effort help China and the Chinese people through the terror, devastation, and suffering caused by the Japanese invasions. Co-curated by Murray K. Lee, Curator of Chinese American History, and Linda C. Tu, Board Member.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 is often seen as the watershed event that brought America into World War II, and the American public into awareness of Japanese aggression in the Pacific, particularly in China, the country most devastated by Japan's ambitions for a "Greater East Asia" under its control. The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, base of the best equipped and best trained fighting force in America, did indeed galvanize America into official action. Yet well before then, Americans had been moved to try to help the people of China. In San Diego, support for China relief preceded America's entry into the war against Japan, and continued into the post-war years.