Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I | |||||||
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Part of World War I | |||||||
![]() The German front line at Qingdao | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Entente Powers:
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Central Powers:
Provisional Government of India (1915) | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Kokumbay Chiny Baatyrkan Rayymbek ![]() | |||||||
a Date of surrender of the Hermann Detzner's unit, major combat actions had concluded in 1914. |
Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I consisted of various military engagements that took place on the Asian continent and on Pacific islands. They include naval battles, the Allied conquest of German colonial possessions in the Pacific Ocean and China, an anti-Russian rebellion in Russian Turkestan and an Ottoman-supported rebellion in British Malaya. The most significant military action was the careful and well-executed Siege of Qingdao in China, but smaller actions were also fought at Bita Paka and Toma in German New Guinea.
All other German and Austro-Hungarian possessions in Asia and the Pacific fell without bloodshed. Naval warfare was common; all of the colonial powers had naval squadrons stationed in the Indian or Pacific Oceans. These fleets operated by supporting the invasions of German-held territories and by destroying the East Asia Squadron of the Imperial German Navy.