Modern Era · North America · War
1965
US invades Dominican Republic
April 28, 1965
Lyndon Johnson sent twenty-three thousand American troops into the Dominican Republic to prevent what he called a second Cuba, intervening in a civil war between military factions. The invasion stained the Alliance for Progress and confirmed Latin American suspicions that the United States would never let a leftist government stand, even an elected one.
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