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United States occupation of Haiti

Index United States occupation of Haiti

The United States occupation of Haiti began on July 28, 1915, when 330 US Marines landed at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on the authority of US President Woodrow Wilson. [1]

87 relations: Admiral, Anathema, Armed Forces of Haiti, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Banana Wars, Battle of Fort Dipitie, Battle of Fort Rivière, Battle of Port-au-Prince (1919), Battle of Port-au-Prince (1920), Bureaucracy, Cacos (military group), Cap-Haïtien, Charlemagne Péralte, Citibank, Civil conscription, Constabulary, Constitution, Cuba, Customs, Dantès Bellegarde, Departments of Haiti, Dominican Republic, Ethnology, Fort Rivière, François Duvalier, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gendarmerie, German Empire, German Haitians, Good Neighbor policy, Great Depression, Haiti, Haiti during World War I, Haitian American Sugar Company, Haitian Campaign Medal, Haitian–American Convention, Herbert Hoover, Hispaniola, History of Haiti, Infrastructure, James Weldon Johnson, Jean Price-Mars, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, John A. Lejeune, John H. Russell Jr., Latin America, Lüders affair, Les Cayes, Liberal arts education, ..., Liberalism, Louis Borno, Marines, Max Boot, Medal of Honor, Monroe Doctrine, Multiracial, NAACP, Oriente Province, Paris Peace Conference, 1919, Parsley massacre, Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave, Philippines, Plain of the Cul-de-Sac, Port-au-Prince, President of the United States, Rebellion, Referendum, Rosalvo Bobo, Sisal, Smedley Butler, Sténio Vincent, The World's Work, Tortuga (Haiti), United States Marine Corps, United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–24), United States presidential election, 1920, United States Secretary of the Navy, Veto, Vilbrun Guillaume Sam, Vocational education, War Is a Racket, William Banks Caperton, William Cameron Forbes, Wilmington, Delaware, Woodrow Wilson, World War I. Expand index (37 more) »

Admiral

Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies, and in many navies is the highest rank.

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Anathema

Anathema, in common usage, is something or someone that is detested or shunned.

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Armed Forces of Haiti

The Armed Forces of Haiti (Forces Armées d'Haïti—FAd'H), consisted of the Haitian Army, Haitian Navy (at times), the Haitian Air Force, Haitian Coast Guard, and some police forces (Port-au-Prince Police).

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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual.

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Assistant Secretary of the Navy

Assistant Secretary of the Navy (ASN) is the title given to certain civilian senior officials in the United States Department of the Navy.

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Banana Wars

The Banana Wars were the occupations, police actions, and interventions on the part of the United States in Central America and the Caribbean between the end of the Spanish–American War in 1898 and the inception of the Good Neighbor Policy in 1934.

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Battle of Fort Dipitie

The Battle of Fort Dipitie was fought in October 1915 during the United States occupation of Haiti.

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Battle of Fort Rivière

The Battle of Fort Rivière was the most remembered battle of the United States occupation of Haiti in 1915.

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Battle of Port-au-Prince (1919)

The Battle of Port-au-Prince took place on either October 6 or 7, 1919, when Haitian rebels, known as cacos, attacked the capital of Haiti during the Second Caco War and the American occupation of Haiti.

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Battle of Port-au-Prince (1920)

The Battle of Port-au-Prince, or "la débâcle", took place on January 15, 1920 when Haitian rebels, known as cacos, attacked the capital of Haiti during the Second Caco War and the American occupation of Haiti.

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Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy refers to both a body of non-elective government officials and an administrative policy-making group.

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Cacos (military group)

Cacos were bodies of armed men, originally drawn from the enslaved population of Haiti, who came to wield power in the mountainous regions of Haiti following the victory of the Haitian Revolution in 1804.

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Cap-Haïtien

Cap-Haïtien (Kap Ayisyen; Cape Haitian) often referred to as Le Cap or Au Cap, is a commune of about 190,000 people on the north coast of Haiti and capital of the department of Nord.

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Charlemagne Péralte

Charlemagne Masséna Péralte (1886 - 1 November 1919) was a Haitian nationalist leader who opposed the US Invasion of his country in 1915.

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Citibank

Citibank is the consumer division of financial services multinational Citigroup.

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Civil conscription

Civil conscription is conscription used for forcing people to work in non-military projects.

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Constabulary

Constabulary may have several definitions.

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Constitution

A constitution is a set of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is governed.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.

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Customs

Customs is an authority or agency in a country responsible for collecting tariffs and for controlling the flow of goods, including animals, transports, personal, and hazardous items, into and out of a country.

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Dantès Bellegarde

Dantès Bellegarde (18 May 1877 – 16 June 1966) was a Haitian historian and diplomat.

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Departments of Haiti

In the administrative divisions of Haiti, the department (French: département) is the first of four levels of government.

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Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic (República Dominicana) is a sovereign state located in the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region.

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Ethnology

Ethnology (from the Greek ἔθνος, ethnos meaning "nation") is the branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationship between them (cf. cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology).

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Fort Rivière

Fort Rivière is a ruined mountain fort on the summit of Montagne Noire, Saint-Raphaël Arrondissement.

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François Duvalier

François Duvalier (14 April 190721 April 1971), also known as PapaDoc, was the President of Haiti from 1957 to 1971.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr. (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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Gendarmerie

Wrong info! --> A gendarmerie or gendarmery is a military component with jurisdiction in civil law enforcement.

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German Empire

The German Empire (Deutsches Kaiserreich, officially Deutsches Reich),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people.

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German Haitians

German Haitians are Haitians of German descent or Germans with Haitian citizenship.

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Good Neighbor policy

The Good Neighbor policy was the foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin Roosevelt towards Latin America.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Haiti

Haiti (Haïti; Ayiti), officially the Republic of Haiti and formerly called Hayti, is a sovereign state located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea.

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Haiti during World War I

Following the United States declaration of war on Germany (1917), the Haitian government protested against the heavy German U-boat submarine activity in the area, and officially declared war on July 12, 1918.

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Haitian American Sugar Company

Haitian American Sugar Company, S.A. (HASCO) was an American business venture which sought to produce and sell sugar and other goods in Haiti and the United States.

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Haitian Campaign Medal

The Haitian Campaign Medal was a United States Navy military award which was first established on June 22, 1917,, FOXFALL MEDALS, last accessed 16 October 2016 and again on December 6, 1921.

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Haitian–American Convention

The Haitian–American Convention was a treaty between those two nations, ratified by the United States Senate on 16 September 1915 (following the United States occupation of Haiti earlier that year) which granted the United States the right to provide security in and administer the finances of Haiti for a period of 10 years.

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Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American engineer, businessman and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression.

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Hispaniola

Hispaniola (Spanish: La Española; Latin and French: Hispaniola; Haitian Creole: Ispayola; Taíno: Haiti) is an island in the Caribbean island group, the Greater Antilles.

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History of Haiti

The recorded written history of Haiti began on 5 December 1492 when the European navigator Christopher Columbus happened upon a large island in the region of the western Atlantic Ocean that later came to be known as the Caribbean.

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Infrastructure

Infrastructure is the fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or other area, including the services and facilities necessary for its economy to function.

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James Weldon Johnson

James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871June 26, 1938) was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist.

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Jean Price-Mars

Jean Price-Mars (15 October 1876 – 1 March 1969), he was born in Grande Rivière du Nord, and died in Pètion-Ville.

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Jean-Jacques Dessalines

Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Haitian Creole: Jan-Jak Desalin;; 20 September 1758 – 17 October 1806) was a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1805 constitution.

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John A. Lejeune

John Archer Lejeune (January 10, 1867 – November 20, 1942) was a United States Marine Corps lieutenant general and the 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps.

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John H. Russell Jr.

John Henry Russell Jr. (November 14, 1872 – March 6, 1947) was a major general and 16th Commandant of the Marine Corps.

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Latin America

Latin America is a group of countries and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere where Spanish, French and Portuguese are spoken; it is broader than the terms Ibero-America or Hispanic America.

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Lüders affair

The Luders Affair was a legal and diplomatic embarrassment to the Haitian government in 1897.

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Les Cayes

Les Cayes, often referred to as Aux Cayes (Okay), is a commune and seaport in the Les Cayes Arrondissement, in the Sud department of Haiti, with a population of 71,236.

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Liberal arts education

Liberal arts education (from Latin "free" and "art or principled practice") can claim to be the oldest programme of higher education in Western history.

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Liberalism

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty and equality.

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Louis Borno

Eustache Antoine Francois Joseph Louis Borno (September 20, 1865 – July 29, 1942) was a lawyer and Haitian politician who served as President of Haiti from 1922 to 1930 during the period of the American occupation of Haiti (1915–34).

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Marines

Marines, also known as a marine corps or naval infantry, are typically an infantry force that specializes in the support of naval and army operations at sea and on land, as well as the execution of their own operations.

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Max Boot

Max Boot (born September 12, 1969) is a Russian-born American author, consultant, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian.

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Medal of Honor

The Medal of Honor is the United States of America's highest and most prestigious personal military decoration that may be awarded to recognize U.S. military service members who distinguished themselves by acts of valor.

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Monroe Doctrine

The Monroe Doctrine was a United States policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas beginning in 1823.

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Multiracial

Multiracial is defined as made up of or relating to people of many races.

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NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by a group, including, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey.

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Oriente Province

Oriente (Spanish for "East" or "Orient") was one of six provinces of Cuba until 1976.

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Paris Peace Conference, 1919

The Paris Peace Conference, also known as Versailles Peace Conference, was the meeting of the victorious Allied Powers following the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers.

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Parsley massacre

The parsley massacre (Spanish: el corte "the cutting"; Haitian Creole: kout kouto-a "the stabbing") took place in October 1937 against Haitians living in the Dominican Republic's northwestern frontier and in certain parts of the contiguous Cibao region.

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Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave

Philippe Sudré Dartiguenave (6 April 1863 – 26 July 1926) was a Haitian political figure.

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Philippines

The Philippines (Pilipinas or Filipinas), officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas), is a unitary sovereign and archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Plain of the Cul-de-Sac

Plain of the Cul-de-Sac (Plaine du Cul-de-Sac, also known as the Cul-de-Sac Plain, or the Cul-de-Sac Depression) is a fertile lowland on the island of Hispaniola.

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Port-au-Prince

Port-au-Prince (Pòtoprens) is the capital and most populous city of Haiti.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Rebellion

Rebellion, uprising, or insurrection is a refusal of obedience or order.

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Referendum

A referendum (plural: referendums or referenda) is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is invited to vote on a particular proposal.

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Rosalvo Bobo

Pierre François Joseph Benoit Rosalvo Bobo or Rosalvo Bobo (1874–1929) was a Haitian politician who opposed the United States occupation of Haiti in 1915.

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Sisal

Sisal, with the botanical name Agave sisalana, is a species of Agave native to southern Mexico but widely cultivated and naturalized in many other countries.

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Smedley Butler

Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881June 21, 1940) was a United States Marine Corps major general, the highest rank authorized at that time, and at the time of his death the most decorated Marine in U.S. history.

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Sténio Vincent

Sténio Joseph Vincent (February 22, 1874 – September 3, 1959) was President of Haiti from November 18, 1930 to May 15, 1941.

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The World's Work

The World's Work (1900–1932) was a monthly magazine that covered national affairs from a pro-business point of view.

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Tortuga (Haiti)

Tortuga (or Tortuga Island) (Île de la Tortue,; Latòti; Isla Tortuga,, Turtle Island) is a Caribbean island that forms part of Haiti, off the northwest coast of Hispaniola.

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United States Marine Corps

The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines, is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for conducting amphibious operations with the United States Navy.

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United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–24)

The first United States occupation of the Dominican Republic lasted from 1916 to 1924.

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United States presidential election, 1920

The United States presidential election of 1920 was the 34th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1920.

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United States Secretary of the Navy

The Secretary of the Navy (or SECNAV) is a statutory officer and the head (chief executive officer) of the Department of the Navy, a military department (component organization) within the Department of Defense of the United States of America.

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Veto

A veto – Latin for "I forbid" – is the power (used by an officer of the state, for example) to unilaterally stop an official action, especially the enactment of legislation.

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Vilbrun Guillaume Sam

Jean Vilbrun Guillaume Sam (4 March 1859 – 28 July 1915) was President of Haiti from 4 March to 27 July 1915.

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Vocational education

Vocational education is education that prepares people to work in various jobs, such as a trade, a craft, or as a technician.

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War Is a Racket

War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book, by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient.

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William Banks Caperton

William Banks Caperton (June 30, 1855 – December 12, 1941) was an admiral of the United States Navy.

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William Cameron Forbes

William Cameron Forbes (May 21, 1870 – December 24, 1959) was an American investment banker and diplomat.

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Wilmington, Delaware

Wilmington (Lenape: Paxahakink, Pakehakink) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Delaware.

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Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was an American statesman and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Haiti

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