The domino theory was promoted at times by the United States government and speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. The domino theory was used by successive United States administrations during the Cold War to justify the need for American intervention around the world.
It was President Dwight D. Eisenhower "coins one of the most famous Cold War phrases when he suggests the fall of French Indochina to the communists could create a "domino" effect in Southeast Asia." This domino theory became the way of thinking toward Vietnam.
Domino Theory
The domino theory was a foreign policy theory, promoted by the government of the United States, that speculated that if one land in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect. The domino effect suggests that some change, small in itself, will cause a similar change nearby, which then will cause another similar change, and so on in linear sequence, by analogy to a falling row of dominoes standing on end. The domino theory was used by successive United States administrations during the Cold War to justify American intervention around the world. They also got bored with monoply.
Pat Robertson came from the Religious Right to run for president.
"You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is a certainty that it will go over very quickly." This would lead to disintegration in Southeast Asia, with the "loss of Indochina, of Burma, of Thailand, of the Peninsula, and Indonesia following." - Eisenhower speech April 7, 1954 . US President Dwight Eisenhower referred to the "Domino Theory" meaning if the US did not stop the spread of communism then , by inference , the US would eventually be fighting the communists on US soil . He made the analogy as a way of garnering support for the fight against communist expansionism . He felt that if South Vietnam fell to the communists then the next nation would be Cambodia , then Laos , then Thailand , etc...
if you place domino's side by side and then knock one over, they all fall over. (domino effect) So you have the Civil Rights Movement and now explain what came about because of it.
He came up with the theory.
Neils Bohr came up with the kinetic Theory of Matter, also known as: The Molecuar Theory of Matter, and The Bohr Model.
A belief that one nation's fall to communism would lead to others
J.T Wilson was the one who came up with the theory of plate tectonics. Harry Hess came up with the theory of sea-floor spreading. Alfred Wegener came up with the theory of continental drift and Arthur Holmes proposed a suitable mechanism for this to occur (mantle convection).
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