Asian and Pacific Theatre of World War I

Asian And Pacific Theatre Of World War I

Asian and Pacific theatre
of World War I
  • Fanning
  • Samoa
  • Bita Paka
  • Toma
  • Tsingtao
  • Singapore
  • Madras
  • Penang
  • Cocos
  • Papeete
  • Coronel
  • Más a Tierra
  • USN Operations
  • Guam
See also: Hindu–German Conspiracy
Indian and Pacific
Ocean theatres, 1914–1917
  • Zanzibar
  • Madras
  • Papeete
  • Tsingtao
  • Rufiji Delta
  • Penang
  • Coronel
  • Cocos
  • Falklands
  • Más a Tierra
  • Guam
Theatres of World War I
European
  • Balkans
  • Western Front
  • Eastern Front
  • Italian Front
Middle Eastern
  • Caucasus
  • Persia
  • Gallipoli
  • Mesopotamia
  • Sinai and Palestine
  • South Arabia
African
  • South-West Africa
  • West Africa
  • East Africa
  • North Africa
Asian and Pacific theatre
Other theatres
  • America
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Mediterranean

The Asian and Pacific Theatre of World War I was a conquest of German colonial possession in the Pacific Ocean and China. The most significant military action was the careful and well-executed Siege of Tsingtao in what is now China, but smaller actions were also fought at Bita Paka and Toma in German New Guinea. All other German and Austrian 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.

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