Records of the Department of State relating to political relations between the U.S. and the Dominican Republic, 1945-1959 [electronic resource].

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Book
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English
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[Farmington, Mich. : Gale Cengage Learning, 2011.]
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1 online resource (1,191 p.)

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Digitized version of microfilm collection of documents in files illuminating the Documents in these files illuminate the Dominican Republic's relations with the U.S. for the period 1945-1959. They include telegrams, airgrams, instructions, inquiries, studies, memoranda, situation reports, translations, special reports, plans, and official and unofficial correspondence. Because of the broad scope of these records, they both supplement and complement the coverage offered by the Department of State's own Foreign Relations of the United States series. A sampling of topics covered by this collection include: Trujillo's attitudes toward Communism and the Cold War; U.S. support for banning the Dominican Communist Party (Partido Comunista Dominicano--PCD); expansion of the national infrastructure and the subsequent expansion of trade with the U.S.; U.S. military and foreign aid activities; concerns regarding foreign loans and the economic downturn in the early 1950s; commentary on American public opinion following the Galindez assassination in 1956; and Trujillo's relations with the OAS.
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  • Source library: U.S. National Archives.
  • Historical coverage of the period from 1945-1959.
  • Areas of research supported by this collection include: Anti-communism; Antihaitianismo ("anti-Haitianism"); calls for democratization and subsequent repression; Dominican Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Dominicano or PRD); Johnny Abbes Garcia; establishment of state monopolies over major enterprises; Fulgencio Batista; Hull-Trujillo Treaty; hydroelectricity; Juan Emilio Bosch Gavino; logging bans; Military Intelligence Service (SIM); Parsley Massacre; Platano Curtain; relations with Cuba; and relations with Haiti.
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Records of the Department of State relating to political relations between the United States and the Dominican Republic, 1945-1959
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World scholar. Latin American & the Caribbean
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793864822
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