تاريخ العلاقات الأميركية-الدومنيكانية 1900-1924

Abstract EN

After Spain discovered the (Hispaniola) island, it divided it into two states: (Haiti and the Dominican Republic).

Then Europeans competed to rule these states and the French and the Spanish exchanged roles in that rule, which subjected the original people to enslavement and domination.

At the end of the nineteenth century, especially after the declaration of principle (Monroe), the United States became a rival to European powers in the Caribbean in particular, and the western hemisphere in general.

The post-World War I, with the complexity of international relations, the Dominicans remained the focus of attention of the United States, and this interest was not based on the Dominican economics, but rather was the result of fear of the United States from the neighboring European strength and a stone's throw from the nearest border region of America, which is only a thousand and two hundred kilometers far from the nearest area of the United States.

After the Dominican republic was under threat by some European powers whose debts it could not pay, the United States fabricates reasons to occupy that country and pledged to pay its creditors.

This proves that the United States does not allow any European power to come close to the Caribbean.