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What did President Eisenhower mean when he compared Vietnam to a domino

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Eisenhower meant that if Vietnam became a fully communist country, other countries around it would become communist, like dominos knocking each other over. The U.S. government prefers capitalism and views communism is a bad thing, so it compares countries becoming communist to a game piece being knocked over, as though the world is a board game and we're playing it.

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Eisenhower's explanation of the domino theory was if Communism was not stopped in Vietnam, countries would fall like dominoes to Communism.

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