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The United States was involved in at least one hostile encounter with Germans in the Pacific during World War I. On 7 April 1917, SMS Cormoran was scuttled in Apra Harbor, Guam to prevent her capture by the auxiliary cruiser USS Supply. The Americans fired their first shots of the war at the Germans as they attempted to sink the ship.
Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
Japan participated in World War I from 1914 to 1918 as a member of the Allies/Entente and played an important role against the Imperial German Navy.Politically, the Japanese Empire seized the opportunity to expand its sphere of influence in China, and to gain recognition as a great power in postwar geopolitics.
The onset of the First World War in Europe eventually showed how far German–Japanese relations had truly deteriorated. On 7 August 1914, only three days after Britain declared war on the German Empire, the Japanese government received an official request from the British government for assistance in destroying the German raiders of the Kaiserliche Marine in and around Chinese waters.
South Asia, 1800–1950, World Peace Communications, 2008. ISBN 0979253233; Xu, Guoqi. Asia and the Great War – A Shared History (Oxford UP, 2016) online [permanent dead link ] Trân, Claire Thi Liên (2022). "Indochina". In Ute Daniel; Peter Gatrell; et al. (eds.). 1914–1918 Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War ...
The Jiaozhou Bay Leased Territory was a German dependency in East Asia leased from China in 1898. [29] Japanese forces occupied it following the Siege of Tsingtao. [30] The Austrian Empire had a foreign concession in Tianjin which was swiftly invaded by China in 1917. The German concessions in Tianjin and Hankou were also invaded. [31]
Chinese workers during WWI. China participated in World War I from 1917 to 1918 in an alliance with the Entente Powers.Although China never sent troops overseas, 140,000 Chinese labourers (as a part of the British Army, the Chinese Labour Corps) served for both British and French forces before the end of the war. [1]
The Asia Corps (German: Asien-Korps or Levantekorps) was a formation of the Imperial German Army which was sent to the Middle East to assist the military of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I.