To suppress this movement, Edward Lansdale first developed “psywar” tactics like creating voices to come from the graves of dead fighters and making them look like victims of vampires called aswangs. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this guerrilla movement of peasant farmers who opposed the Bell Trade Act for granting American citizens equal access to the country’s natural resources.
ANSWER: Huks [or Hukbalahap; accept, BUT DO NOT REVEAL, Hukbong Bayan Laban sa Hapon]
[10e] Ramon Magsaysay appointed a member of this family special envoy to the Huks. The 1983 assassination of that politician on an airport tarmac sparked the People Power Revolution in the Philippines, which installed his wife as president.
ANSWER: Aquino (“ah-KEE-noh”) [accept Ninoy Aquino or Benigno Aquino or Benigno Simeon Aquino Jr.; accept Corazon Aquino or Cory Aquino or Maria Corazon Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino]
[10m] The name for the Huks translates as a “people’s army” for this general sentiment, which earlier spread through China in response to the Twenty-One Demands.
ANSWER: anti-Japanese sentiment [or Japanophobia or Nipponophobia; accept descriptions of opposing Japan or being against Japan or similar answers; accept Nihon or Nippon in place of “Japan”; prompt on xenophobia or nationalism]
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