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This was theday that the dictator General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina was born.
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After being trained by the American army Trujillo work in the Dominican's army and eventually becomes the rankof general.
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Trujillo establishes a dictatorship in the Dominican Republic when the president is overthrown.
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A goup of rebels decide to kill the president, and Trujillo being the general of the army, deceides t olet it happen so his plan to become dictator may fall into place.
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A hurricane rips through the capitol city, destroying and killing roughly 2,000 people. Trujillo uses this as an excuse to put all the citizens into martial law.
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The Dominican Repulic army under the rule of Trujillo massacred 20,000 Haitins living int he Dominican Republic areas.
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Patricia and Minervia are allowed to go to catholic school, so they start school.
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A girl at the catholic school Minervia and Patricia are attending becomes one of trujillo's girlfriends, and when his wife finds outthat she is pregnant she tries to kill her. after his wif's failed attempt to kill her she is sent to Miami for her safty.
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This was the date that Hitler and the Axis powers invaded Poland
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the Dominican Republic goes to war agains the axis powers in World War two
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hitler declaired total war meaning any weapons that anyone wanted to use for the war were alowed, no more weapon restrictions.
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This was the date that Adolf HItler killed himself so avoid being capturedby the Allied armys.
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Minervia starts hanging out with Heilda, but when Maria Terresa finds ou tabout it she doesnt approve of their friendship
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after Maria Terresa starts school her sister Minerva bought her a diary, which she holds dear to her heart and starts to write in.
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Patricia is going to school to become a nun, but she doesn't believe that she is being called to become a nun when she returns home and meets her future husband.
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When Patricia drops out of becoming a nun and moves away with her husband, She starts having children, But when she has the third child, it is born a stillborn, so it was dead on the womb. This utterly devistates Patricia and she starts loosing her faith in God.
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The problems for the family started when the girls started talking with the revolutionary LIo Morales.
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Minervia's father wont let her go to college, for his own weird disturbing reasons...
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Minerva and her sisiters go to a party for Trojilo, but when he gets sexually agressive and Minervia slaps him.
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The Korean War begins with the North Koreans army pouring across the border into South Korea.
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Maria Teresa turns 18 and her father dies, this is the first time she sees her fathers other family.
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This is the date that the Viatnam war officially started
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Maria Terese finds a boy that she really likes, delivering ammunation, they later talk about getting married.
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Trujilllo sees all the rebelions and makes sure to put a stop to them.
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MInervia gets wor that Cuba has been freed by Castro.
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When everone was getting arrested Dede was not because she didn't join the resistance. So she starts to take care of everyone's children.
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Patricia starts to pray to Trojillo in hopes that he will change his heart.
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Patria drops on her knees to thank God when Nelson is released; but appears on the newspaper that she's thanking Trujillo.
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Mate gets a journal to keep herself sane in prison
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A lot of people are being arrested, those people include Minervia, Mate, Nelson, Pedrito, Leandro, and Manolo.
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All the political prisinors are allowed to leave the prison, the girls are reluctant to leave their new friends they made in prison.
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The story begins and openly states how Dede's sisters will die in a car crash on this date.
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Even though Trujillo claimed that he made his brother the new presidnet of the Dominican republic, he still remained in total control of the government for 31 years.
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Trujillo was finally assasinated by a group of seven people, some of which were in his military.
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The United States realizes what has happened in the Dominican Republic and decides that they need to do something about it.
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Dede is intervieved by a reporter to tell all fo the events leading up to her sister's death
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During the interview, Dede remembers back to when the problems started and starts to tell that part of the stoy.
