a continuing past 8 Flashcards
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resulted to peso anchoring/pegging to dollars
Bell trade act
For example, just before the Pacific War broke out, Caltex geologists discovered in ___ one of the greatest known
reservoirs of oil in the world.
Sumatra
American propaganda created the ____ which provided the United States with the excuse to interfere in the internal affairs of nations especially the weaker ones, bolster reactionary regimes, and build a network of military alliancesfor defense against the “Red menace.”
Cold War
who were the “red menace”
Soviet Union
The US. objective immediately after the war was to transform the Philippines from a colony to a ___.
neocolony
He was convinced that the Philippines could not survive, much less rehabilitate its economy without American aid and
investment.
Roxas
Its basic objective was the continuation of free trade between the two countries which would otherwise terminate with Philippine independence.
Bell Trade Act or Philippine Trade Act
The ____ offered the Philippines
compensation of property
losses and damages suffered by Filipinos, Americans, citizens
of friendly nations, religious and private organizations.
Philippine Rehabilitation Act
this agreement gave the United States free use of 23 base sites for 99
years, renewable on expiratiOon.
Military Bases Agreement
The ___ offered
a program for agrarian’ reforms and real independence which was essentially what the peasant movement had been advocating for the last twenty-five years.
PKM memorandum
___ now became a battle zone as the government declared war on the Huks.
Central Luzon
___obliged the Philippines to grant US.
citizens and corporations the same rights as Filipinos in the exploitation of Philippine natural resources
“Equal Rights” or
parity amendment
On July 29, 1946, President’ Roxas issued ____. It called for the surrender of arms and set an August 31 deadline.
Republic Act No. 4
new name of Hukbalahap
Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan
or
Army of National Liberation
____ oppose this neocolonial imposition.
Huks & Democratic Alliance
Roxas set up an ___ to study the tenancv problem but a clause to the Tenancy Act provided convenient loopholes to the advantage of landlords.
Agrarian Commission