The first paper uses memoirs, court records, and oral history interviews. This paper examines how the 1915 rebellion in Singapore expressed growing anti-colonial sentiment among Indian soldiers and tentative inter-ethnic anticolonial alliances. This perspective contrasts with British reports that dismissed the rebellion as a mere mutiny staged by foreign infiltrators of Muslim fanatics. The second paper challenges prevailing views of the Ottoman entry into World War I as an anti-revolutionary adventure by the military dictatorship of the Young Turks. Ottoman wartime policy is better explained as a continuation of revolutionary agendas that had inspired the 1908 constitutional revolution—not as a break with it. The 1908 goals of government centralization and silencing of opposition persisted through the war and shaped the 1923 establishment of the Turkish republic. By drawing together the usually distinct historiography of Senegal and Algeria, the third paper argues that a revolutionary moment emerged in the French empire in 1918-1919 under the leadership of longtime anti-colonialist Georges Clemenceau. Local politicians tapped the discontent and expectations of war veterans to mount movements to claim the rights of citizenship and representation within the French Empire. The paper challenges a historiography that has dismissed the reforms enacted as unimportant because they did not endure: as historians have long viewed World War I in Europe as a dynamic of revolution and counterrevolution, so too might we understand a similar dynamic in North and West Africa.