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When: April 28, 1968

What: In an effort to forestall what he claims would be a “communist dictatorship” in the Dominican Republic, President Lyndon B. Johnson sent U.S. troops to restore order on the island nation.

Why significant: Johnson’s action provoked loud protests in Latin America and skepticism among many in the U.S.

At the time, political chaos gripped the Dominican Republic as various groups struggled for power. The U.S. government feared that “another Cuba” was in the making in the Dominican Republic. So on April 28 Johnson sent more than 22,000 U.S. troops to the Dominican Republic. Over the next few weeks they brought an end to the fighting and helped install a conservative, non-military government.

Johnson declared that he had taken action to forestall the establishment of a “communist dictatorship” in the Dominican Republic. As evidence, he provided American reporters with lists of suspected communists in that nation. However even cursory reviews of the list revealed that the evidence was extremely flimsy; some of the people on the list were dead and others could not be considered communists by any stretch of the imagination.

Many Latin American governments condemned the U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic as a return to the “gunboat diplomacy” of the early-20th century, when U.S. Marines invaded and occupied a number of Latin American nations on the slightest pretexts. In the U.S., politicians and citizens who were already skeptical of Johnson’s policy in Vietnam heaped scorn on Johnson’s statements about the “communist danger” in the Dominican Republic. Such criticism would become more and more familiar to the Johnson administration as the U.S. became more deeply involved in the war in Vietnam.

Tags: Cold War, President Lyndon B. Johnson