✦ History

Dominican Civil War

April 24 – September 3, 1965 · Santo Domingo

Result Loyalist victory

Uprising by supporters of the ousted president Juan Bosch, followed by a US invasion that stopped the rebels from taking power.

On the map Contemporaries

United States

Dominican Revolutionary Party

Other

United States
Brazil
Paraguay
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Honduras
Organization of American States
Dominican Republic
Lyndon B. Johnson belligerent leader Robert McNamara belligerent leader Antonio Imbert Barrera military commander Bruce Palmer Jr. military commander Rathvon M. Tompkins military commander Elías Wessin y Wessin military commander
Juan Bosch leader José Rafael Molina Ureña military commander Francisco Caamaño military commander

Strength and losses

United States Strength 6,924 · Deaths 47

Killed
c. 1,469

Dominican Republic Tanks captured 5