OPIUM WARS

BACKGROUND INFO

• Britain wanted Chinese
• Tea, but they couldn't
• Afford it, so they had to
• Buy it by selling opium
• Which was illegal.

BETWEEN WHO?

• The Opium Wars were
• Between Western
• Countries and China

RESULTS

• In the first war the British
• Beat China making China
• Sign a treaty. In the next
• War the China lost again
• And had to sign a treaty