Dominican Civil War

Dominican Civil War
	Part of the Cold War
	; American soldiers fight while a child takes cover under a jeep in Santo Domingo on May 5, 1965.
Date	24 April 1965 – 3 September 1965; (4 months, 1 week and 3 days)
Location	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Result	Loyalist victory Ceasefire declared; Formation of the provisional government for new elections; Deposition of Juan Bosch of the presidency ratified; Organization of presidential elections in 1966 under international supervision; Election of Joaquín Balaguer as the new president; Establishment of the Fourth Dominican Republic on July 1, 1966;
Belligerents
Loyalist faction; Dominican National Police; Dominican Army; Dominican Air Force; Dominican Navy; ; United States; IAPF Brazil ; Paraguay ; Nicaragua ; Costa Rica ; El Salvador ; Honduras ;	Constitutionalist faction Dominican Revolutionary Party; Dominican Communist Party; June 14th Revolutionary Movement; ;
Commanders and leaders
Elías Wessin y Wessin; Antonio Imbert Barrera; Lyndon B. Johnson; Robert McNamara; Bruce Palmer	Juan Bosch; Francisco Caamaño; André Rivière † ; Ilio Capocci †
Strength
Loyalists:; 2,200 regulars; 12 AMX-13 light tanks; 24 L-60 light tanks; 13 Lynx armoured cars; 1 frigate; 4+ fighters; United States:; 6,924 Marines (supported by M48 Patton main battle tanks); 12,434 82nd Airborne paratroopers	Constitutionalists:; 1,500 regulars; 5,000 armed civilians; 5+ light tanks
Casualties and losses
Dominican Republic: 500 regulars killed; 325 police killed; 5 light tanks captured; 2 P-51 Mustang fighters shot down; United States: 47 dead (including 9 Marines and 18 paratroopers killed); 283 wounded or injured; 1 M50 Ontos damaged; IAPF: 11 wounded;	600 regulars killed; unknown armed civilians killed; 5 light tanks destroyed; 1 cargo ship damaged
	6,000 Dominican casualties and 350 U.S. casualties
	The Inter-American Peace Force (IAPF) was designed as a peacekeeping force and thus is not considered a war participant.

The Dominican Civil War (Spanish: Guerra Civil Dominicana), also known as the April Revolution (Spanish: Revolución de Abril), took place between April 24, 1965, and September 3, 1965, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It started when civilian and military supporters of the overthrown democratically elected president Juan Bosch ousted the militarily-installed president Donald Reid Cabral from office. The second coup prompted General Elías Wessin y Wessin to organize elements of the military loyal to the dictator Reid ("loyalists") and launch an armed campaign against the "constitutionalist" rebels.

Allegations of communist support for the rebels led to a United States invasion (codenamed Operation Power Pack), which later became an Organization of American States occupation of the country by the Inter-American Peace Force. Although ostensibly neutral, U.S. civilian and military leaders deployed troops in a way that aided the anti-Bosch forces.

In 1966, Bosch lost the presidential election to Joaquín Balaguer. Foreign troops left later that year.