outline dominican history
Antecedents of the 1st U.S. intervention in the D.R.
The Republic experienced a tortuous process of social and political unrest that naturally unhinged the economic development of the forces native production. These factors of national and international nature, derived from the clash between the great industrial powers of the capitalist world, which triggered the First World War and clearly explain the true causes-economic, political and military that led to the occupation by the United States of Dominican Republic and the establishment of the military dictatorship that opened from November 29, 1916.
United States became a powerful nation and began its entry into commercial competition for control of the markets with the main industrial empires the world.
United States had started in Latin America a period of interventionism and economic and military expansionism directed, under the guise of "Monroe Doctrine", breaking the balance that kept industrialized European countries in our region, to become, years later, in the continental dominant force.
Juan Isidro Jimenes was sworn in for the second time as President of the Republic, on December 5, 1914.
The impasse between the Juan Isidro Jimenes government and the United States, as it did not accept some of the measures that the United States wanted to impose (among them, express approval of the U.S. administrator).
Uprising of the Horacista generals in the north.
In 1907, when it was imposed the Dominican-American Convention, the Dominican nation to accept the agreement lost its sovereignty and became an American protectorate.
U.S. military occupation of Haiti in 1915.
Increase in the Desiderio Arias's power, who, as secretary of War and Navy, rebelled against Jimenes in April 1916.
United States investments in the Panama Canal.
Symbol of U.S. technological prowess and economic power.
Negotiation between the United States and Great Britain in 1850 about the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty to
The Republic experienced a tortuous process of social and political unrest that naturally unhinged the economic development of the forces native production. These factors of national and international nature, derived from the clash between the great industrial powers of the capitalist world, which triggered the First World War and clearly explain the true causes-economic, political and military that led to the occupation by the United States of Dominican Republic and the establishment of the military dictatorship that opened from November 29, 1916.
United States became a powerful nation and began its entry into commercial competition for control of the markets with the main industrial empires the world.
United States had started in Latin America a period of interventionism and economic and military expansionism directed, under the guise of "Monroe Doctrine", breaking the balance that kept industrialized European countries in our region, to become, years later, in the continental dominant force.
Juan Isidro Jimenes was sworn in for the second time as President of the Republic, on December 5, 1914.
The impasse between the Juan Isidro Jimenes government and the United States, as it did not accept some of the measures that the United States wanted to impose (among them, express approval of the U.S. administrator).
Uprising of the Horacista generals in the north.
In 1907, when it was imposed the Dominican-American Convention, the Dominican nation to accept the agreement lost its sovereignty and became an American protectorate.
U.S. military occupation of Haiti in 1915.
Increase in the Desiderio Arias's power, who, as secretary of War and Navy, rebelled against Jimenes in April 1916.
United States investments in the Panama Canal.
Symbol of U.S. technological prowess and economic power.
Negotiation between the United States and Great Britain in 1850 about the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty to