Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I

Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I
Part of World War I
The German front line at Qingdao
Date 3 August 1914 – 5 January 1919a (4 years, 5 months and 2 days) Location China, Bismarck Archipelago, Caroline Islands, Line Islands, German New Guinea, German Samoa, Guam, Mariana Islands, Marshall Islands, Tahiti, Mas a Tierra, Russian Turkestan Result Allied victory
Belligerents
Allies:  Japan  United Kingdom  Australia  New Zealand  France  Russia Russian Turkestan Emirate of Bukhara Kazakh tribes  United States Supported by:  China  Siam	Central Powers:  Germany  New Guinea  Samoa German concession of Tianjin German concession of Hankou  Austria-Hungary Austro-Hungarian concession of Tianjin Provisional Government of India (1915) Royalist party (1917) Central Asian rebels: Turkic tribal confederations Kyrgyz Kazakhs Dungan Uyghurs
Commanders and leaders
Katō Sadakichi Kamio Mitsuomi Christopher Cradock † William Holmes Robert Logan Maxime Destremau Aleksey Kuropatkin	Alfred Waldeck Maximilian von Spee Eduard Haber Erich Schultz-Ewerth Kokumbay Chiny [ky] Baatyrkan Rayymbek Alibi Dzhangildin [ru]
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.