Wilson Plan
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