While the various countries of Europe were fighting each other to the death, East Africa launched a full-scale offensive, quietly expanding across regions in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Besides seizing markets and sources of raw materials that had originally belonged to Europe, it also kept making small moves against other countries' colonies.
Among them, East Africa was also quite covetous of the Netherlands' East Indies colonies, but had not taken any major action, and could only make a fuss over Kalimantan Island.
September 1914.
Germany and the Anglo-French Allied Army opened the bloody Battle of the Marne River.
Germany's military operations in Belgium had basically come to an end. Although it ultimately took the Liège Fortress, the result did not meet Germany's psychological expectations.
