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Contents 1 After the revolution 2 Acts 3 Wars 4 Comments

After the revolution

• Consolidation
• First Actions
  • Nationalisation
  • Banks
  • Public Utilities
  • Assets of those that fled to Formosa
  • Offered compensation to those willing to work with PRC
• Administrative Structure
  • Divided into Six Regions
  • Led by 4 officials
    • Chairman
    • Party Secretary
    • Military Commander
    • Political Commissar
  • Central Government
  • Central People's Government Council
  • 56 Leading Members
  • 6 Vice-Chairmen
  • 1 Chairman of Council
• Reunification Campaigns
  • Assert power over regions that might declare independence. . three armies dispatched.
  • Areas
    • North
    • South (Xinjiang)
    • West (Tibet)

Acts

• 1950 Marriage Law
• 1950 Trade Union Law
• 1951 Agrarian Reform Law
  • Land confiscated
• Traitors repressed
  • bureaucrat capitalists
  • "four big families" of the Nationalist Party
    • K'ungs
    • Soongs
    • Chiangs
    • Ch'ens
• Many foreign nationals
  • Effects
  • End the power of many industrialists
  • Provided an economic basis for industrialization.

Wars

• Korea October 1950
• Translated spirit of external threat into spirit of sacrifice

Comments