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In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States has intervened militarily in the Caribbean. This intervention lasted from 1898 to the mid 1930’s. During those thirty three years, the United States intervened militarily in Cuba, Mexico, Haiti, Santo Domingo (which is now Dominican Republic), Panama and Nicaragua. This paper will focus on the effects that this intervention had on Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Though the United States intervention in Haiti and the Dominican Republic aggravated a number of socio-economic and political problems, there were also positive impacts made on these countries due to the interventions.
By 1912 escalating instability in Haiti all but invited foreign intervention. The countries most productive president of the early twentieth century, Cincinnatus Leconte, had died in an explosion in the National Palace in August 1912. After Cincinnatus Leconte death at least five more contenders claim the country’s leadership over the......

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