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U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower described the theory during an April 7, 1954, news conference, when referring to communism i Americans had long been wary of Soviet communism and concerned about Russian leader Joseph Stalin’s On January 5, 1957, in response to the increasingly tense situation in the Middle East, President Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969) delivered a proposal to a joint session of the U.S. Congress calling for a new and more proactive American policy in the region. The domino theory was a Cold War policy that suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a perfectly aligned row of dominos. However, the relationship between the two nations was a tense one. 0000002343 00000 n
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The domino theory was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s that posited that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. The National Security Council included the theory in a 1952 report on Indochina, and in April 1954, during the decisive battle between Viet Minh and French forces at Dien Bien Phu, President In Eisenhower’s view, the loss of Vietnam to communist control would lead to similar communist victories in neighboring countries in Southeast Asia (including Laos, Cambodia and Thailand) and elsewhere (India, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, and even Australia and New Zealand).
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“The possible consequences of the loss [of Indochina],” Eisenhower said, “are just incalculable to the free world.”After Eisenhower’s speech, the phrase “domino theory” began to be used as a shorthand expression of the strategic importance of South Vietnam to the United States, as well as the need to contain the spread of communism throughout the world.Three weeks after Diem was murdered in a military coup in early November 1963, The domino theory is now largely discredited, having failed to take into account the character of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong struggle in the By assuming Ho Chi Minh was a pawn of the communist giants Russia and China, American policymakers failed to see that the goal of Ho and his supporters was Vietnamese independence, not the spread of communism.In the end, even though the American effort to block a communist takeover failed, and North Vietnamese forces marched into Saigon in 1975, communism did not spread throughout the rest of Southeast Asia.
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as illustrated below. basic idea of a political “domino effect” is much broader than this. 0000007889 00000 n
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