Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Daya daga cikin hare-haren farko a cikin Oceania shi ne mamayewar Samoa ta Jamus
a watan Agusta 1914 da sojojin New Zealand. Yaƙin neman zaɓe don ɗaukar Samoa ya ƙare ba tare da zubar da jini ba bayan fiye da New Zealanders 1,000 sun sauka a kan mulkin mallaka na Jamus. Sojojin Ostiraliya sun kai wa New Guinea na Jamus hari a watan Satumba na shekara ta 1914. Wani kamfani na Australiya da wani jirgin yaƙi na Burtaniya sun kewaye Jamusawa da mazaunansu, wanda ya ƙare da mika wuya na Jamus.