Thursday, May 1, 2014

Homework 4/28

WWI began as mostly a European war, but soon it spread. It eventually got all corners of the world involved, including India, Africa, Japan, and the US. For this reason we can say that it was a global war, because of the vast amount of countries that took part, even though the center of conflict was with Europe. 
Most Asians fought for the Allies because either they were forced to due to being under imperial European powers, or they had their own interests. For example, India joined the Allies because of the British influence on the Indian rulers. China joined the Allies because they wanted Britain to defend them from Japan's aggression. So while Asians mostly fought for the Allies, they were not all happy about it.