Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I

Asian and Pacific theatre
Part of World War I
The German front line at Qingdao
Date 3 August 1914 – 11 November 1918 Location East Asia, Central Asia, Melanesia, Polynesia Result Allied victory
Belligerents
Allies  Japan  United Kingdom  Australia  New Zealand  Russia  Khanate of Khiva  Bukhara  United States  China  Siam	Central Powers  Germany  Austria-Hungary  Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Christopher Cradock † William Holmes Robert Logan	Maximilian von Spee Eduard Haber

During World War I, conflict on the Asian continent and the islands of the Pacific included naval battles, the Allied conquest of German colonial possessions in the Pacific Ocean and China, the anti-Russian Central Asian revolt of 1916 in Russian Turkestan and an the Ottoman-supported Kelantan 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.