46 Causes of its Success 



37,000,000. During the fifteen years following 

 1884, when Germany entered upon her Imperialist 

 career with a policy of African protectorates and 

 the annexation of Oceanic islands, she acquired 

 an area of about 1,000,000 square miles, with an 

 estimated population of 14,000,000. Almost the 

 whole of her added territory was tropical, and the 

 white population numbered only a few thousands. 



Italy, Portugal, and Belgium entered directly 

 into the competition of the new Imperialism 

 between 1880 and 1884. Russia's expansionist 

 policy, though more in the nature of a regular 

 colonial policy of settlement for the purposes of 

 agriculture and industry than the new Imperialism, 

 comes definitely into competition with this in Asia, 

 as in Persia and Manchuria, and has been as- 

 suming increasingly an Imperialist nature. 



The annexation of Formosa by Japan following 

 the victory over China, and of Korea following the 

 Russo-Japanese war, showed that this rising and 

 progressive Oriental Empire adopted Imperial- 

 ism with the other characteristics of Occidental 

 civilization. 



The entrance of the United States of America 

 upon an Imperialistic career by the annexation of 

 Hawaii, and later, of the Philippines, marks the 

 extension of the competition to the Western 

 Hemisphere. 



This unprecedented growth of Imperialism 

 among all the great powers contributed powerfully 

 to the spread of the philosophy of force. On the 



