{{Short description|Period of Dominican statehood following the first U.S occupation (1924–1965)|}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2018}} {{Infobox country | native_name = {{langx|es|República Dominicana}} | conventional_long_name = Dominican Republic | common_name = Third Republic | footnotes = {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} | status = [[Dominican Republic|Dominican territory]] | empire = | government_type = [[Presidential system|Presidential republic]]<br />{{small|under a [[dictatorship]] (1930–1961)}} | leader1 = [[Rafael Trujillo]] | year_leader1 = 1934–1961 | leader2 = [[Ramfis Trujillo]] | year_leader2 = 1961 | title_leader = ''[[Generalissimo]] '' | representative1 = [[Rafael Trujillo]] | year_representative1 = 1930–1938 | representative2 = | year_representative2 = 1938–1940 (first) | representative3 = | year_representative3 = | representative4 = | year_representative4 = | representative5 = [[Joaquín Balaguer]] | year_representative5 = 1960–1962 (last) | title_representative = [[List of Presidents of the Dominican Republic|President]] (''de jure'') | deputy1 = [[Horacio Vásquez]] | year_deputy1 = 1924–1930 (first) | deputy2 = | year_deputy2 = | deputy3 = | year_deputy3 = | deputy4 = [[Héctor García-Godoy]] | year_deputy4 = 1966 (last) | title_deputy = [[List of Presidents of the Dominican Republic|President]] (''de facto'') | era = {{hlist|[[Interwar period]]|[[World War II]]|[[Cold War]]}} | event_start = [[Horacio Vásquez]] becomes president, Dominican self-governance reestablished | date_start = 12 July | year_start = 1924 | event1 = Departure of US troops after the end of the [[Military Government of Santo Domingo|first US occupation]] | date_event1 = 18 September 1924 | event2 = ''[[Coup d'état]]'' | date_event2 = 28 February 1930 | event3 = [[Rafael Trujillo#Assassination|Assassination of Rafael Trujillo]] | date_event3 = 30 May 1961 | event4 = [[Dominican Civil War]] begins | date_event4 = 24 April 1965 | event5 = [[Dominican Civil War|Second United States occupation of the Dominican Republic]] began | date_event5 = 28 April 1965 | event6 = [[Dominican Civil War]] ends | date_event6 = 3 September 1965 | date_end = 1 July | year_end = 1966 | event_end = [[Fourth Dominican Republic]] is established | event_pre = | date_pre = | event_post = | date_post = | p1 = United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–1924) | flag_p1 = Flag of the United States.svg | p2 = | flag_p2 = | s1 = United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1965–1966) | flag_s1 = Flag of the United States.svg | s2 = Dominican Republic | flag_s2 = Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg | image_flag = Flag of the Dominican Republic.svg | image_coat = Coat of arms of the Dominican Republic.svg | flag = | today = [[Dominican Republic]] | image_map = | national_anthem = ''[[National Anthem of the Dominican Republic|Quisqueyanos valientes]]''<br />{{raise|0.2em|''Valiant Quisqueyans''&nbsp;{{lower|0.2em|<!--end lower:-->}}<!--end raise:-->}}<div style="padding-top:0.5em;">{{center|[[File:Dominican Republic National Anthem.ogg]]}}</div> | capital = [[Santo Domingo|Santo Domingo / Ciudad Trujillo]] | religion = [[Roman Catholic]] | common_languages = Spanish | currency = [[Dominican peso]] | stat_area1 = }} The '''Third Dominican Republic'''<ref>{{cite book |first=Tirso|last=Mejía-Ricart|title=la Tercera Republica – la Fragua de Nuestra Contemporaneidad |url=http://hoy.com.do/la-tercera-republica-la-fragua-de-nuestra-contemporaneidad/ |publisher= Periódico Hoy |date=2013|access-date=May 13, 2013}}</ref> was a predecessor of the [[Dominican Republic]] and existed from 12 July 1924 with the departure of American troops after the end of the [[Military Government of Santo Domingo|first American occupation]], until 1 July 1966 when [[Joaquín Balaguer]] became [[President of the Dominican Republic]]. De facto, the Third Republic ended on 28 April 1965 with the [[Dominican Civil War|US occupation]]. This period is also known as the '''Age of Trujillo''', because of the strong influence exerted by the [[Totalitarianism|totalitarian]]<ref name="Cord Meyer">{{cite book |last=Ameringer |first=Charles D. |url=http://www.umsl.edu/~thomaskp/plwordab.htm |title=U.S. Foreign Intelligence: The Secret Side of American history |date=1990 |publisher=Lexington Books |isbn=978-0669217803 |page=258}}</ref> and [[Autocracy|autocratic]] [[Rafael Trujillo|Trujillo regime]] over much of these 41 years.

==See also== * [[History of the Dominican Republic]] * [[First Dominican Republic]] * [[Second Dominican Republic]] * [[Vice president of the Dominican Republic#List of vice presidents of the Dominican Republic, 1924–1965|Vice Presidents of the Dominican Republic (1924–1965)]]

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