...DOMINO THEORY?

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Answer by Vedas
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Communism: What Reaction Did Australia Have To The Domino Theory?. The theory was first proposed by President Harry S. Truman to justify sending military aid to Greece and Turkey in the 1940s The domino theory was an American theory that claimed that if one country became communist, the other countries in the region would be at risk from communism (and might become communist) because of agitation from within the communist country. They used this theory to justify involvement in Greece and Turkey in 1947 and Korea, Vietnam and Laos in later years. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Dom´i`no the´o`ry 1. A political theory current in the 1960's, according to which the conversion of one country in South Asia to communism will start a sequential process causing all Asian countries to convert to Communism.

Answer by RDKirk
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The "Domino Theory" was first mentioned by US President Dwight Eisenhower during a press conference in 1954. He said, simply: "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. " http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/domino.html Notice that nothing was specifically said about contiguous countries being a necessary factor of the "domino theory," although because the context of that news conference was Indochina, it has apparently been presumed that Eisenhower meant contiguous states. Fear of Third World states around the world becoming Communist was sparked by the fact that the USSR's COMINTERN was, indeed, during that period scoring an unbroken string of across the Third World. The domino theory would have been more accurately called the "Momentum Theory"...it's not as though Eisenhower was particularly giving a thought-out theory of international politics. At any rate, it was believed by US presidents from Eisenhower through Johnson that it was necessary to break the string of COMINTERN success, and the point they decided to break it was in Vietnam. Actually, the Vietnam war in fact succeeded in that purpose. The USSR was far more involved in the Vietnam war than most people realise, and their involvement brought the successes of COMINTERN to the end intended by the US.

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Question by TANYA
Submitted on 9/12/2003
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WHAT IS THE DOMINO THEORY?

Answer by DAYANCY
Submitted on 1/29/2004
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I CANT PUT IN MY PASSWORD BECAUSE IM ONLY A CHID AND I NEED INFORMATION ON THE DOMINO THEORY

Answer by nikki
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cause and effect

Answer by razza
Submitted on 3/24/2004
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the domino theory was a theory adopted by the yanks and it was a capitalist pig theory. People should be able to decide what they want and it not to be forced upon them.

Answer by Jennifer
Submitted on 4/15/2004
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The Domino therory is an therory explaining how once you do something wrong, many things other things happen because of that. Once these things are put into motion there is no stopping them.

Answer by Ali F
Submitted on 2/22/2004
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The domino theory was an American theory that claimed that if one country became communist, the other countries in the region would be at risk from communism (and might become communist) because of agitation from within the communist country. They used this theory to justify involvement in Greece and Turkey in 1947 and Korea, Vietnam and Laos in later years.

Answer by cool surfboard boi!
Submitted on 6/8/2004
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the domino theory was the theory that if you stand dominoes next to each other, the will fall and make a loud noise! fairys rule!

Answer by colingshlong
Submitted on 6/25/2004
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary Dom´i`no the´o`ry 1. A political theory current in the 1960's, according to which the conversion of one country in South Asia to communism will start a sequential process causing all Asian countries to convert to Communism.

Answer by hot wog girl
Submitted on 9/13/2004
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during the middle of the cold war thoes of us who understand that the soviet union and communism were evil advanced the DOMINO THEORY for defending vietnam. hubibz rule

Answer by babygurl~*~
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i am doing a research project on the domino theory and I'm asking "What is the Domino Theory?"

Answer by dj
Submitted on 11/17/2004
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The Domino Theory was a United States political theory advanced by both liberal and conservative Americans during the Cold War. It asserted that if one country were taken over by Communists, neighbouring countries would fall like dominoes.

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i like domino pizza coz dats yummy. ok ok ive neva ad it b4 but i like the simpsons and dominoes sponser the simpsons. fairies r not the only thing that rule.

Answer by jess
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the theory that if one country fell to communism it's neighbours would fall and communism would spread

Answer by Neumann Chan
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None of those Asian countires really implementd Marxism with full force!

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Answer by Babbo
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The domino theory is an American capitalist ideology that influenced the U.S foreign policy making in South East-Asia. It suggested that if one Asian country fell to monolithic communism, the surrounding countries would, like dominoes, also succumb to the imposition of communism and ultimately would result in global upheaval at the hands of communist nations. This theory culminated in U.S intervention in Vietnam through president Truman in October 1954 through his pledge of commitment to Diem's South Vietnamese Government. Consequentially, a new concept of 'containment' was introduce by the U.S government as a means of eliminating communism in the Indochina region.

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Answer by no
Submitted on 8/28/2005
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how bout no?

Answer by pog
Submitted on 8/30/2005
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the domino theory was a theory that the americans gave to the south east asia region that was falling (like dominos) to communism

Answer by Mel
Submitted on 3/10/2006
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The domino theory is the threat of communism expanding throughout and ito Australia during the Vietnam war. Many believed if one country was infuenced other countries would soon follow, which was called the domino theory.

Answer by Swanny
Submitted on 3/23/2006
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Half of these people suck. the Domino Theory was told by the President of the USA when he explained his theory on communism. he told how when Vietnam fell to communism, then all the surrounding countries, including Aus, in indo-China would also become communist. it explained how eventually Latin America would Also fall. and in the end the whole world would become communist. you people suck. lol nah jk.

Answer by sophie
Submitted on 3/25/2006
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i dont know but want to know ok

Answer by Angie Baby
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theory or no theory who caress

Answer by becadec
Submitted on 3/7/2007
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A political theory which implies that if one country is communist, then all the surrounding countries would subsequently 'fall' to communism, and communism would eventually spread and take over the world.

Answer by izzy
Submitted on 3/10/2007
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it was a line of countries awaiting to be caught in what they call the domino theory and australia was affraid because if the other sountries had fallen under it they we would too

Answer by dayancy
Submitted on 4/21/2007
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the domino theroy was first annouced in parlarment. the theroy is that if the south east asian contries all got taken over by japan(communists) australia would fall in to the cluches of japan and become communist