The Opium Wars

The Opium War was also called the Anglo-Chinese War and was the most humiliating defeat that China ever suffered. In European history this is perhaps the most sordid, base, and vicious event in European history, possibly, just possibly, overshadowed by the excesses of the Third Reich in the twentieth century. In the era of the opium wars the British would sell the drugs to the Chinese people so they can get them to trade with them. But in the years the Chinese would get very addicted to it and the Chinese government would want the Brit's to stop selling it to them. the Brit's' had said no and continued to sell the opium. overall the British had won this war because they were technological advanced then the chinese.