![]() ![]() In Africa, the Allies (principally Britain, France, Belgium and South Africa) fought to take over the four main German colonies there - German South-West Africa (now Namibia) German East Africa (now Tanzania) the German Cameroons and Togoland (modern-day Togo). There was fighting in 1914, as the Japanese captured the German territory of Tsing-tau. ![]() In the South Pacific, the Australians fought to capture a series of German colonial island territories, including New Guinea which Australia then occupied for the rest of the war. The British opened fronts in Gallipoli, at the Dardanelles straits in Mesopotamia - what is now modern-day Iraq - where after a series of setbacks they ultimately captured Baghdad and in Palestine, where they fought up from Egypt to capture Jerusalem. As the warring parties sought to break the deadlock the conflict spread even further.
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