Wilson Plan

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Wilson Plan

Wilson Plan (1914), a diplomatic proposal by the Woodrow Wilson administration for a peaceful solution to the civil conflict between political factions in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Under its provisions, the warring factions would lay down their arms, choose a provisional president (if they could not agree, the U.S. president would select one), and hold a constitutional convention and a peaceful election. Despite the holding of an election for a new president in the Dominican Republic, the political situation in the country further deteriorated, and in 1916 the United States military commenced an eight-year military occupation. In Haiti, the Wilson Plan was virtually unworkable because the president was chosen by the national assembly.

See alsoUnited States-Latin American Relations .

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Lester D. Langley, The Banana Wars: United States Intervention in the Caribbean, 1898–1934 (1983).

David Healy, Drive to Hegemony: The United States in the Caribbean, 1898–1917 (1988).

Additional Bibliography

Atkins, G. Pope and Larman C. Wilson. The Dominican Republic and the United States: From Imperialism to Transnationalism. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998.

Fernandez, Ronald. Cruising the Caribbean: U.S. Influence and Intervention in the Twentieth Century. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1994.

                                      Lester D. Langley

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