Powerpoint about the Post-War Philippines

1. I. Philippine Third
Republic

2. Manuel Roxas Administration
(1946-1948)
• Proposed the “Parity Rights
Amendment” that Filipinos
refused
• Agreement of War Surplus
Property (1946)
• Military Bases Agreement (1947)

3. • Failed to stamp-out graft and
corruption
• Chinese Immigration Quota
Anomaly
• Failed to contain HUKs insurgency

4. Elpidio Quirino Administration
(1948-1953)
• Created the President’s
Action Committee on
Social Amelioration
• Founded the Agricultural Credit
Cooperatives Financing
Administration
• Established rural banks and labor
management boards

5. • Reconstructed and rehabilitated
the Philippine economy
• HUKs gained more power and
influence despite his amnesty
proclamation (1950)
• Hailed Ramon Magsaysay as his
defense secretary

6. Ramon Magsaysay
Administration (1953-1957)
• “Most popular president
the masses ever had”
• Constructed irrigation systems
• Popularized “Barong Tagalog”
• Established SEATO in Manila
(1954)
• San Francisco Treaty was signed

7. Carlos Garcia Administration
(1957-1962)
• Propagation of “Filipino
First Policy”
• Projection of Philippine Culture
through “Bayanihan Folk Dance
Group”
• Created the “Rizal Centennial
Commission”

8. Diosdado Macapagal
Administration (1961-1965)
• Enactment of “Agricultural
Land Reform Code”
• Change of celebration of
Philippine independence
• Use of Filipino language in public
documents
• Creation of MAPHILINDO

9. Ferdinand Marcos Presidency
(1965-1987)
*First Term (1965-1969)
• Had a slogan of “This
nation can be great again.”
• Built different roads, bridges,
trains (PNR)
• Introduction of “Miracle rice”
• Held the “Manila Summit
Conference” (1966)

10. *Second Term (1969-1972)
• Philippines suffered economic
crisis
• Rampant graft and corruption
• Gross violation of 1935
Constitution
• Massive Communist threat

11. Founded Communist groups:
• Kabataang Makabayan (1964)
• Samahan ng Demokratikong
Kabataan (1964)
-became the vanguards of 1970
First Quarter Storm
• Communist Party of the Philippines
-adheres Marxist-Leninism and
Mao thought

12. • New People’s Army
• National Democratic Front

13. • 1971 Constitutional Convention
happened through R.A. 6132
(June 1, 1971)
• Opened by Sen. President
Gil Puyat and Speaker
Cornello Villareal
• Headed by Carlos
Garcia and later,
Diosdado Macapagal

14. • Several delegates walked out the
session after Marcos’ speech
• Liberal Party’s proclamation rally
on August 21, 1971 at Plaza
Miranda was disturbed by
explosion of two grenades
• 8 persons killed
and 120 people
wounded

15. • Few hours after the Plaza
Miranda bombing, Marcos issued
the “Proclamation No. 880” that
suspends the “Writ of Habeas
Corpus”
• Restored the “writ”
to the country on
January 11, 1972

16. Thank you!
Yosef Eric C. Hipolito, LPT, MA
Bachelor of Arts in History
yosefhipoito19@gmail.com