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Cold War: The Dominican Civil War broke out due to tensions following a military coup against the democratically elected government of President Juan Bosch two years earlier.
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1947–1991 geopolitical rivalry between US and USSR
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1965 civil war in the Dominican Republic
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20th-century Dominican politician and writer
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