1954 The Domino Theory
The Domino Theory is a theory that when you start the chain reaction of the first domino it will start knocking down the rest of the domino's and no one will now what will happen to the last domino. President Eisenhower put the domino theory into words on April 7th, 1954 news conference “Finally, you have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the "falling domino" principle. You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. So you could have a beginning of a disintegration that would have the most profound influences.” President Eisenhower applied the Domino Theory to Vietnam. Considering how North Vietnam wanted to spread communism and how the United States opposed the spread of Communism, he believed that if South Vietnam became communist, other countries in Southeast Asia including Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, and Indonesia would eventually fall to communism. So summarizing what President Eisenhower said, the domino theory is if you knock over the first domino it will start a chain reaction to knock over the next domino but know one ever knows were it will stop or what will happen to the last domino.
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