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The Oxford Companion to World War II (2005), comprehensive encyclopedia for all countries; Eccles, Karen E. and Debbie McCollin, eds. World War II and the Caribbean (2017) excerpt; Frank, Gary. Struggle for hegemony in South America: Argentina, Brazil, and the United States during the Second World War (Routledge, 2021). Friedman, Max Paul.
of the Dominican Republic (1916–1924) Dominican Republic United States: Defeat. Dominican Republic occupied; 1,137 killed or wounded [2] World War II (1941–1945)
USS Memphis wrecked at Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where it was thrown ashore by rogue waves on the afternoon of August 29, 1916. Dominican migrants in Cuba began a successful campaign to denounce the U.S. occupation while Latin American governments also protested. [20]
Unification of Hispaniola Republic of Haiti (1820–1849) Dominican War of Independence First Republic (1844–1861) Spanish occupation (1861–1865) Dominican Restoration War Second Republic (1865–1916) United States occupation (1916–1924) Third Republic (1924–1965) Dominican Civil War Fourth Republic (1966–) Topics LGBT history Postal history Jewish history Dominican Republic portal
The Parsley massacre (Spanish: el corte "the cutting"; [5] Creole: kout kouto-a "the stabbing" [6]) (French: Massacre du Persil; Spanish: Masacre del Perejil; Haitian Creole: Masak nan Pèsil) was a mass killing of Haitians living in illegal settlements [7] and occupied land in the Dominican Republic's northwestern frontier and in certain parts of the contiguous Cibao region in October 1937.
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina (/ t r uː ˈ h iː j oʊ / troo-HEE-yoh; Spanish: [rafaˈel leˈoniðas tɾuˈxiʝo moˈlina]; 24 October 1891 – 30 May 1961), nicknamed El Jefe (Spanish: [el ˈxefe]; meaning the boss), was a Dominican military officer and dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from August 1930 until his assassination in May 1961. [2]
1940s establishments in the Dominican Republic (4 C, 1 P) 0–9. 1941 in the Dominican Republic (1 C, 1 P) 1942 in the Dominican Republic (1 P)
The Santo Domingo Affair, or the Santo Domingo Crisis, refers to an incident from 1 February 1904 to 11 February 1904 involving the United States and Dominican militia forces in the Dominican Republic. After the death of a seaman from the USS Yankee on February 1, the U.S. military launched a punitive expedition which routed the Dominican forces.