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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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