Also known as: U.S. withdrawal from Haiti, American withdrawal from Haiti, End of the U.S. occupation in 1934, August 1934 withdrawal
Last updated: April 26, 2026
The U.S. withdrawal from Haiti ended the military phase of the occupation in August 1934 through a negotiated sequence: the August 7, 1933 accord incorporated a Haitianization plan, Franklin Roosevelt accelerated the timeline during his July 1934 Haiti visit, and the last marines departed August 15, 1934. Sténio Vincent cast himself as a liberator in the lineage of Toussaint and Dessalines, and a Festival of the Second Independence followed August 21 — but U.S. fiscal supervision in debt administration continued until 1947. The exit was thus military but not fiscal, closing one era of the occupation while opening the post-occupation political field studied in Red and Black in Haiti.
Cast the 1934 U.S. withdrawal as Haiti's 'Second Independence' — using the marines' departure as nationalist theater to consolidate his political legitimacy while building a centralized post-occupation state.
The Forbes Commission laid the political groundwork for the 1934 withdrawal by establishing the transitional framework and timetable; the withdrawal four years later was the culmination of the process his commission initiated.
The 1946 revolution rose against the occupation-era political order that survived the 1934 marine withdrawal
The accord set the terms and timetable for the 1934 marine withdrawal
Us Withdrawal Haiti 1934
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