In February 1949, Albania gained membership in the communist bloc's organization for coordinating economic planning, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( Comecon ).

Mao in 1949 set China in an isolationist, and communist country, along with their Soviet benefactors.

The insurance industry in China was nationalized in 1949 and thereafter offered by only a single state-owned company, the People's Insurance Company of China, which was eventually suspended as demand declined in a communist environment.

The fraudulent Polish elections, held in January 1947 resulted in Poland's official transformation to undemocratic communist state by 1949.

In the late 19th-and early 20th centuries, although some boundary agreements were signed between Great Britain, Afghanistan and Russia over the northern borders of Kashmir, China never accepted these agreements, and the official Chinese position did not change with the communist revolution in 1949.

The resulting republic was replaced, after yet another civil war, by a communist People's Republic in 1949.

At the onset of his inaugural term in 1949, then-President of the United States Harry S. Truman assembled an advisory group to suggest ways to accomplish his Point Four Program, of which a significant component was an effort to strengthen developing countries, especially those nearest to the Eastern Bloc, to dissuade them from aligning with other communist states.

" The colonial struggle in Vietnam became part of the global Cold War in October 1949 when a victorious Chinese communist army arrived on Vietnam's northern border.

The current president Ma Ying-Jeou advocates as well for the revitalization of Chinese culture, as in the re-introduction of Traditional Chinese in texts to mainland China used in Taiwan and historically in China before the communist revolution in 1949.

In the final stages of the Chinese Civil War, Hu accompanied Deng to Sichuan, and communist forces successfully took control of the province from Nationalist forces in 1949.

The communist victory in China in 1949 led to a revival of the fortunes of the Việt Minh.

In 1949, the communist government took over and he was responsible for working as Mao Zedong's secretary and Culture Minister until 1964.

After the communist revolution at the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, which led to the creation of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), Tsinghua University's then President Mei Yi-Qi, followed by many professors, fled to Taiwan where they established the National Tsing Hua Institute of Nuclear Technology in 1955, which later became National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan.

From 20 December 1949 to 20 October 1956 the city was renamed by the communist government Stalin after Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.

During the height of McCarthyism in 1949, the FBI first opened a domestic security investigation on Zinn ( FBI File # 100-360217 ), based on Zinn ’ s activities in what the agency considered to be communist front groups and informant reports that Zinn was an active member of the Communist Party of the United States ( CPUSA ).

" The fraudulent Polish elections, held on January 16, 1947, resulted in Poland's official transformation to communist state by 1949.

Fraudulent Polish elections held in January 1947 resulted in Poland's official transformation to a non-democratic communist state by 1949, the People's Republic of Poland.

A treason and murder trial was launched by Poland's communist regime in 1949, which was later condemned as a miscarriage of justice.

The orchestra underwent a crisis between 1949 and 1952 because Russell, who had been the leading force in keeping the orchestra going during the war years, came under pressure in the Cold War years because of his communist beliefs.

This reference to God meant that during the period of strongest communist rule in Hungary ( 1949 – 1956 ), the anthem was played but the words were never sung.

In 1949, anti – communist fear, and fear of American traitors, was aggravated by the Chinese Communists winning the Chinese Civil War against the Western-sponsored Kuomintang, their founding of the People's Republic of China, and later Chinese intervention in the Korean War ( 1950 – 53 ) against U. S. ally South Korea.

In 1949, the ÁVH arrested Hungarian Communist Party member László Rajk, who was then tried and executed for nationalism and Titoism in a show trial that signified to the international communist movement that Yugoslavia was now a threat.

In 1949, the communist German Democratic Republic was founded in the Soviet-occupied eastern part of the country.

Watchman Nee's version of the local church began in Foochow ( 福州 ), China c. 1922 ; and after the communist revolution in China in 1949 was propagated outside of China by Nee's co-worker Witness Lee ( 李常受, 1905 – 1997 ).

With the formation of a separate East German communist state in October 1949 the Socialist Unity Party faced a huge range of problems.

In 1949, local authorities were empowered to provide people suffering from poor health with public housing at subsidised rents.

* 1949 – Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.

The general trend since 1949 has been to further centralize management in the Department of Defense, elevating the status and authorities of civilian OSD appointees and defense-wide organizations at the expense of the military departments and the services within them.

The National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 which led to the creation of the English and Welsh national parks defined two purposes for national park authorities relating to conservation and enjoyment.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the need for economic development led the authorities to order heavy reconstruction work.

On 29 March 1949, authorities lost radio contact with a plane carrying Patel, his daughter Maniben and the Maharaja of Patiala.

After the war ended, in 1949 and 1950, the authorities of the People's Republic of Poland arrested and interrogated a number of suspects from or around the town of Jedwabne, accused of collaboration with the Nazis in committing the crime and put them on trial.

After the Second World War, the British authorities appointed Gustav Heinemann Mayor of Essen, and in 1946 he was elected to that office, which he kept until 1949.

Building on the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 which required local authorities to draw up maps defining public rights of way.

In the run-up to the 1949 treason trial against Traicho Kostov, Zhivkov criticised the Party and judicial authorities for what he claimed was their leniency with regard to Kostov.

The authorities granted this request, and land was provided for the new school in Itabashi Ward, northern Tokyo, with the renamed Tokyo Bunsei University ( 東京文政大学 とうきょうぶんせいだいがく Tokyo University of Literature and Politics ) being founded in 1949.

In 1949 the Company successfully petitioned the City authorities for permission to apply to King George VI for a new charter of incorporation.

The emirate of Cyrenaica was declared in British-occupied Cyrenaica in 1949 with the backing of the British authorities.

In 1949, Soviet authorities erected a statue of 19th century Russian general Aleksey Yermolov in Grozny.

Control was handed back to the Bremen authorities in 1949.

In October 1949, the authorities established a General Directorate to oversee both the works and the penal facilities, answering directly to the national leadership.

Due to his relations with the RDA, which was linked to the French Communist Party, M ' Ba was seen as a communist and propagandist in the colony ; for the authorities, these suspicions had been confirmed when M ' ba was involved in the 1949 RDA congress in Abidjan.

* Heinrich Boere, a Dutch or German convicted by a Dutch court in 1949 of murders on the part of the World War II German occupation authorities in the Netherlands.

In 1949, the entire island was officially made into a high-security, top secret prison and labor camp run by the authorities of FPR Yugoslavia, together with the nearby Sveti Grgur island, which held a similar camp for female prisoners.

However, the communist authorities of Poland pressured the organization to become a member of the Pioneer Movement and eventually it was banned in 1949.

In 1949 the authorities changed the club's name to Dinamo following the Soviet traditions, but after the destalinization of Bulgaria, it was reverted back in 1957.

On 27 December 1949, the Dutch authorities finally recognized Indonesian sovereignty.

A local nature reserve is a statutory designation made under Section 21 – " Establishment of nature reserves by local authorities " – of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 by principal local authorities in England, Scotland and Wales.