Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Yaƙin Duniya na (1914<unk>1918) bai shafi Singapore sosai ba: rikicin bai bazu zuwa kudu maso gabashin Asiya ba. Babban abin da ya faru a cikin gida a lokacin yaƙin shi ne tawayen 1915 na Sepoys na Indiyawan Indiyawan Indiya da ke zaune a Singapore. Bayan jin jita-jitar shirye-shiryen aika su don yaƙi da Daular Usmaniyya, sojojin sun yi tawaye, sun kashe jami'ansu da fararen hula da yawa na Burtaniya kafin sojojin da suka isa daga Johor da Burma suka murkushe tashin hankali. Bayan yakin, gwamnatin Burtaniya ta ba da gudummawa mai yawa wajen gina sansanin sojan ruwa a Singapore, a matsayin abin da zai hana daular Japan da ke kara girman kai. An kammala shi a shekara ta 1939 a farashin dala miliyan 500, sansanin sojan ruwa ya yi alfahari da abin da ya fi girma a duniya, na uku mafi girma a duniya, da isasshen tankunan man fetur don tallafawa dukan sojojin ruwa na Birtaniya na watanni shida. An kare shi da manyan bindigogi masu nauyin inci 15 da kuma rundunar sojin sama na Royal Air Force da ke zaune a Tengah Air Base. Winston Churchill ya ɗaukaka shi a matsayin "Gibraltar na Gabas". Abin takaici, sansanin ba shi da rundunar soji. An kafa rundunar jiragen ruwa na Birtaniya a Turai kuma shirin ya kasance don tafiya da sauri zuwa Singapore lokacin da ake bukata. Duk da haka, bayan yakin duniya na biyu ya ɓarke a shekara ta 1939, Rundunar Sojan Ruwa ta kasance da cikakken aiki tare da kare Birtaniya. An nada Laftanar Janar Sir William George Shedden Dobbie a matsayin gwamnan Singapore da Janar Jami'in Kwamandan Malaya a ranar 8 ga Nuwamba, 1935, yana rike da mukamin a The Istana har zuwa jim kadan kafin barkewar Yaƙin Duniya na II a 1939. Shi ne ke da alhakin samar da The Dobbie Hypothesis game da faɗuwar Singapore wanda, da an kula da shi, da zai iya hana faɗuwar Singapore a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu.  Tambaya: Yaushe ne aka soma Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu?
1939 shekara