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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video looking at the fraught relationship between the two Caribbean neighbours of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Both were governed by dictators who were strongly anti-communist, both were allied to the united States and yet their shared, volatile history was the guiding principle in their hostile relationship. Red Army Faction: https://youtu.be/wgYfTQJYCkI Colonial Indochina to 1945: https://youtu.be/uijOG8oYHgo First Indochina War pt. 1 GUERILLA: https://youtu.be/V9wSqx0W8h0 First Indochina War pt. 2 INTERNATIONALIZATION: https://youtu.be/58PAc7zAtSg Alcohol Prohibition in the USSR https://youtu.be/kyPdGderIxk Cocaine and Cartels: https://youtu.be/A9VA51N-Ug4 International Terrorism: https://youtu.be/VqHMjA35aLM Liberation Theology: https://youtu.be/Dfu2I_LTKt4 Iranian Nuclear Program: https://youtu.be/ZrNNeS31lNg Angela Davis: https://youtu.be/VMzpkYg6wOY The School of the Americas: https://youtu.be/3tYwj-7b_jU Birth of the Military Industrial Complex: https://youtu.be/8glmBbBENlk America's Secret Nuclear Disaster: https://youtu.be/iXSSCdlTst4 How Nuclear Deterrence Theory developed: https://youtu.be/UHIsdbvsuOY How the American Political Parties Switched Their Ideologies https://youtu.be/SdcreXEWzG0 How the RAND Corporation created American strategy: https://youtu.be/J1mH_O7MzJk The Nuclear Wannabes: Sweden, Brazil and Argentina: https://youtu.be/1LpL6Q1s7TA Israel: the Officially Unofficial Nuclear State: https://youtu.be/dcXSkpRDp2k Taiwan Under the Kuomintang Dictatorship: https://youtu.be/nGYzXNpQclo What Happened to the German and Japanese POWs?: https://youtu.be/JLK1xQV9B84 Operation Paperclip: https://youtu.be/17cNgMpBiWw German Expulsions: https://youtu.be/zyWx4p4hiaY Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar, Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv #ColdWar #ColdWarHistory #History #ModernHistory #Haiti #dominicanrepublic #Papadoc #Duvallier #Trujillo #carribean **SOURCES** http://www.jstor.com/stable/2127551 https://www.jstor.org/stable/24913419 https://www.jstor.org/stable/25611893 https://www.jstor.org/stable/41715031 https://www.marines.mil/portals/1/Publications/Dominican%20Republic%20and%20Haiti%20Study_1.pdf https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1945v09/d797 https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/RAFAEL%20TRUJILLO%2C%20THE%20DOMI%5B15603377%5D.pdf https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/RAFAEL%20TRUJILLO%2C%20THE%20DOMI%5B15603377%5D.pdf https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/policies-and-politics-behind-todays-haiti-dominican-republic-relations https://dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2025/03/22/dominican-republic-was-the-epicenter-of-several-plots-against-fidel-castro-and-francois-duvalier/ https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1945v09/d797 https://www.marines.mil/portals/1/Publications/Dominican%20Republic%20and%20Haiti%20Study_1.pdf Alex von Tunzelmann “Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean”, Henry Holt and Co., 2011