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Author Palmer, Bruce, Jr., 1913-2000.

Title Intervention in the Caribbean : the Dominican crisis of 1965 / Bruce Palmer, Jr
Published Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©1989

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Prologue -- Origins of the Revolution -- Initial U.S. operations: 29 April -- 3 May 1965 -- Stabilizing the situation: 3-15 May 1965 -- Creating the Inter-American Peace Force: 6 May -- 15 June 1965 -- Establishing a Provisional Government: 4 June -- 3 September 1965 -- Return to normalcy: 4 September -- 25 October 1965 -- An assessment -- Caribbean realities for the United States today
Summary The 1965 U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic remains a unique event: the only time the Organization of American States has intervened with force on a member state's territory. It is also a classic example of a U.S. military operation that drew in America's hemispheric allies. Finally, its outcome was that rare feat in the annals of diplomacy -- a peaceful political settlement of a civil war. Here for the first time is the full story of that action, as told by one of its leading participants. General Palmer was the U.S. Army's operations chief in Washington in April 1965 when the Dominic
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-213)
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Subject Organization of American States.
SUBJECT Organization of American States. fast (OCoLC)fst00549307
Subject SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
International relations.
Militärische Intervention
Interventie.
Krijgshandelingen.
SUBJECT United States -- Relations -- Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic -- Relations -- United States
Dominican Republic -- History -- Revolution, 1965. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85038988
Subject Dominican Republic.
United States.
USA.
Dominikanische Republik -- Bürgerkrieg (1965)
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813150024
0813150027