Haiti & The Great Depression and the Americas

By CatherineHistory

  • President Borno is re-elected by the State Council

  • The Gendarmerie d'Haïti becomes the Garde

  • Border Agreement of 1929

  • The Les Cayes Incident

  • President Hoover sends the Forbes Commission to Haiti

  • Louis Eugene Roy is designated temporary president by state decree

  • Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina is elected President of the Dominican Republic

  • Senator Stenio Vincent is elected to a six-year term as president

  • The U.S. agrees to hand over partial control to the Haitian government

    The Haitian government regains the Offices of Public Works, Health,
    Agriculture, and Education.

  • Good Neighbor Policy

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd President of the United States

  • Elie Lescot forges an alliance with President Rafael Trujillo

  • Haiti Disengagement Agreement, 1933

  • Haiti and Dominican Republic diplomatic meeting

    President Vincent of Haiti and President Rafael Leonidas Trujillo of the Dominican Republic meet for diplomatic talks near the Dominican border.

  • Last American forces withdraw from Haiti, ending the U.S. occupation

  • The flag of Haiti is raised at Casernes Dessalines

  • Haitian plebiscite, 1934

  • Haitian constitutional referendum, 1935

  • "La Résistance Haïtienne" is published

  • The Parsley Massacre

  • 1937 Haitian coup d’état attempt