the Paraguayans at 2nd Campo Grande, and re-capture the Chaco after the fall of Campo Vía. Ceasefire declared. 1934: Truce lifted, Bolivia re-launches offensive at the Battle of Cañada Strongest, but Paraguayans counterattack at Ybybobo. 1935: Bolivian-occupied Villa Montes falls to Paraguayans. The last of the Bolivians are pushed out by a small Paraguayan force at Ingavi. Bolivia accepts truce on June 12, 1935. 1936, February 17: February Revolution brings Rafael Franco to power. 1937: Félix Paiva elected president. 1939: José Félix Estigarribia is elected. 1940, September 7: Estigarribia is killed in a plane crash, general Higinio Moríñigo assumes power. Morinigo era 1941: Morinigo bans all other political parties and un-sympathetic newspapers. Serious considerations are made to assist Hitler, but is halted by Franklin D. Roosevelt 1945, February 8: Paraguay declares war on Germany, but does not see action. 1947: Morinigo manages to win Paraguayan Civil war with the help of Colorado militias. 1948: Morinigo is overthrown and Juan Manuel Frutos inherits position of presidency, followed that year by Juan Natalicio González. Democracy restored 1949: Raimundo Rolón is appointed president, followed by Felipe Molas López. Federico Chávez is elected full-term. 1954: Tomás Romero Pereira is elected. Hands over power to Alfredo Stroessner. Stroessner regime 1955: Stroessner declares state of siege and removes various civil rights from the people. 1959: Achne tribe enslaved and wiped out by order of Stroessner. 1965-66: Assists USA in the invasion of the Dominican Republic. 1972: University of Asunción is destroyed by police. The Archbishop of Paraguay, Ismael Rolón Silvero, excommunicates chief of police and minister of the interior. 1974: Human rights abuses in Paraguay come to notice internationally, and Stroessner is accused of Slavery, Genocide [of tribes], corruption, torture and kidnapping, as well as supposedly protecting ex-Nazis living in Paraguay. 1988: Pope John Paul II visits Paraguay, increasing anti-Stroessner morale. 1989: General Andrés Rodríguez starts an uprising against Stroessner, and succeeds after an artillery duel over Asunción, after which Stroessner flees to Brazil. Rodriguez appointed president after 35 years of oppression. Modern period 1992: Rodriguez initiated reforms including the abolition of the death penalty. He releases many political prisoners and slaves. He prosecutes and imprisons the main perpetrators of Stroessner's regime. 1993: Juan Carlos Wasmosy is elected president. He frees several of Stroessner's associates from prison and reappoints them to their former government positions. 1996: Field marshal Lino Oviedo mounts a failed coup against Wasmosy.