Second Opium War (7492 bytes)
1: The '''Second Opium War''' or '''Arrow War''' began in [[1856]] and ended in [[1860]].
11: ...1839]]-[[1842]]), thus the name of ''Second Opium War''.
13: ...cy]], [[smuggling]] and of being engaged in the [[opium]] trade. They captured 12 men and imprisoned them...
15: ...rt, the British Army attacked Guangzhou. American warships bombed Guangzhou on the pretext of "protecti...
27: In June [[1858]] the first part of the war ended with the [[Treaty of Tientsin]], to which F...

First Opium War (4409 bytes)
1: ...lict began a long history of Chinese resentment toward [[Western society]] that still has remnants toda...
3: ...ssible commodities, the British soon discovered [[opium]], and would use its narcotic effects for capital...
5: ...es Elliott]] to hand over all remaining stocks of opium for destruction in May [[1839]].
9: [[image:opiumwar.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A Chinese ship is destroyed...
11: ...e British were expelled from China. Preparing for war, they seized [[Hong Kong]] (then a minor outpost)...

Opium (6759 bytes)
1: ... currently accounts for 87 percent of the world's opium supply.
3: ...g 1874.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Opium smokers in an "opium den" in the East End of London, 1874.]]
5: ==Harvesting Opium==
6: ...y brown resin that is scraped off the pods as raw opium.
8: ...Image:Harvesting opium.jpg|thumb|200px|Harvesting opium.]]

Opium Wars (6753 bytes)
1: ...]] Wars between [[Britain]] and [[China]]. In the second, [[France]] also participated alongside Britain.
3: == The growth of the opium trade (1650-1773) ==
5: ...lped strain finances already squeezed by European wars.
7: ...ish imperial government prohibited the smoking of opium in [[1729]].
9: ...ngal]], they began to see the potential profit in opium, which up until this point had been primarily out...

Opium of the people (2577 bytes)
2: ...man language|German]] "''Die Religion ... ist das Opium des Volkes''") is one of the most frequently quot...
8: ...d, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.''' [''Emphasis added'']

Opium (album) (319 bytes)
1: '''''Opium''''' is a [[1984]] [[KMFDM]] album.
9: # Warp'd

Opium poppy (2520 bytes)
1: {{Taxobox_begin | color = lightgreen | name = Opium poppy}}
2: ...e: Opium-poppy.jpg|225px|Opium poppy]]| caption = Opium poppy}}
14: ...mniferum'', is the type of [[poppy]] from which [[opium]] and all refined opiates such as [[heroin]] are ...
19: ...ge:Field_of_opium.jpg|thumb|left|250px|A field of opium poppy in Burma.]]
21: ... The seeds can be pressed to form poppy seed oil. Opium Poppy seeds contain negligible amounts of narcoti...

Japan's Opium policy in Korea (618 bytes)
1: ==Japan's Opium fields in Northern Korean==
3: ...of war, finance, navy and foreign affairs. Japans opium trade was believed for the purpose of weakening t...

Japanese opium policy in Taiwan (1895-1945) (675 bytes)
3: ==Japan's opium policy in Taiwan==
4: ...sed in order to get much needed money for Japan's war efforts.

No War But The Class War (1337 bytes)
1: '''No War But The Class War''' (NWBTCW) has been used as the name for a numbe...
3: ...991]] [[Gulf War]]. The group dissolved after the war stopped.
5: ...99]] [[Kosovo War]]. This too dissolved after the war stopped.
7: ...ransmuted itself into the '''No War But The Class War Discussion Group''' which eventually also dissolv...
11: '''''No War But The Class War''''' has been a slogan used by people not necessa...

(Yerzoplazistonian) Civil War Civil War (640 bytes)
1: ...erzoplazistonia]] had the upper hand in the civil war, but the rebels took the capital on [[November 2,...

Get Your War On (3409 bytes)
1: '''Get Your War On''' is a series of satirical comic strips by [[...
2: more recent events, in particular the [[War on Terrorism]]. They achieved cult status on the ...
5: ...]]s (discussed in [http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war28.html the strips of December 9, 2003]).
7: Get Your War On has been published in book form, with the auth...
10: ...in the house!!!" ([http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war.html October 9, 2001 strip])

Once There Was A War (476 bytes)
1: ...tten by [[John Steinbeck]] while he was a special war correspondent for the [[New York Herald]] Tribune...

On War (3981 bytes)
1: ...ausewitz]], written mostly after the [[Napoleonic wars]], between [[1816]] and [[1818]], and published ...
3: ... practical and deal in a systematical manner with war as it was practiced, covering a wide variety of s...
5: ...rongly with [[Sun Tzu]]'s message in [[The Art of War]] that ''supreme excellence consists in breaking ...
7: ...ability to motivate the populace and thus unleash war on a greater scale than was generally fought prev...
9: ''On War'' is actually an unfinished work; Clausewitz had ...

The War (1957 bytes)
1: ...ferred to as ''The War'', and before that [[World War I]] was often known by this moniker.
6: '''The War''' was also the nickname given by promoter [[Bob ...
13: ...set in the [[American South]] after the [[Vietnam War]].
15: ...have built. The film gained Wood a young actor's award.

After War (206 bytes)
3: ...o the years after the conclusion of the 7th Space War, in which the Earth was devastated by massive col...

War On Want (664 bytes)
1: ...es to tackle problems, as well as raising public awareness of the concerns of [[developing nations]].
8: * http://www.waronwant.org

My War (639 bytes)
1: '''''My War''''' was an album released in [[1984]] by [[Black...
4: # "My War" (Dukowski) 3:45

War Within (551 bytes)
1: [[Image:Shadows_fall_-_war_within_cover.jpg|right|]]
3: '''War Within''' is a [[heavy metal music|metal]] album ...
20: [[Category:2004 albums|War Within]]

Just war (6919 bytes)
1: ...lum]]) and the conduct of the participants in the war ([[Jus in Bello]]).
3: ...quinas]] later codified a set of rules for a just war, which today still encompass the points commonly ...
5: ...ern language, these rules hold that to be just, a war must meet the following criteria before the use o...
7: *War can only be waged for a just cause, such as [[sel...
8: ...ity Council to make the internaitonal community's war decisions. [[Citizens]] at their own will cannot ...

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