U.S. Policy Of Johnson Administration Towards Dominica Republic

Latin America is always regarded as the natural sphere of influence by the American government, it does not permit the external power to influence "the American rear court". After Second World War, Soviet Union's rising has enormously impacted on US. When Cuba as a Latin America country announced to become into socialist country, has caused the huge panic in the American society and the policy-making stratum. How avoided appearing "another communism political power" in Latin America, has already became the Johnson Administration the most important policy.In April, 1965, when Dominica as a Latin America small country erupted the revolt, the Johnson Administration gave up the temperate policy, adopted the naked interference policy. The policy was proposed "the Johnson doctrine" aimed at Latin America. It has provided the theory basis for US military intervention Dominica. Hereafter, U.S. government impelled the Organization of American States to pass a resolution that dispatched the Inter-America peace force to arrive in Dominica, it made the military intervention legalization. Then, the Johnson Administration continued to interfere Dominican domestic affair through propping apt American political power in Dominican. On June 1, 1966, U.S. government supported secretly Balaguer to defeat Bosch, Balaguer was elected Dominican new president. The Johnson Administration changes the policy immediately, through the political and economy aid to improve the relations with Dominica, in order to achieve the goal which can continue to operate the Dominican internal affairs.This article will inquire and comb the new declassified Foreign Relations of The United States (FRUS), the correlative reference material and the network resources, to emphatically inspect the Johnson Administration policy to the Dominican which experiences origin, transformation and development process. The author tries to utilize the correlative knowledge of history and science of international relations, and take the national interest principle as the main theory basis, to generalize and analyze Johnson Administration policy characteristic to the Dominican, and to open out the essence of U.S. Latin American policy, as well as the influence of this policy which produces to American with the Latin America country relations.