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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826343203321

Autore

Palmer Bruce <1913->

Titolo

Intervention in the Caribbean : the Dominican Crisis of 1965 / / Bruce Palmer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : University Press of Kentucky, , 1989

©1989

ISBN

0-8131-8460-6

0-8131-5002-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Disciplina

303.48/27307293

Soggetti

Dominican Republic Relations United States

United States Relations Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic History Revolution, 1965

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps and Figures; Preface; Prologue; 1. Origins of the Revolution; 2. Initial U.S. Operations: 29 April-3 May 1965; 3. Stabilizing the Situation: 3-15 May 1965; 4. Creating the Inter-American Peace Force: 6 May-I5 June 1965; 5. Establishing a Provisional Government: 4 June-3 September 1965; Illustration; 6. Return to Normalcy: 4 September-25 October 1965; 7. The IAPF Completes Its Mission: 26 October 1965-21 September 1966; 8. An Assessment; 9. Caribbean Realities for the United States Today; Glossary of Acronyms; A; C; D; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O

PR; S; T; U; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

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