This leader was the first to publicly espouse the Domino Theory.
Lyndon Johnson
Winston Churchill
Ho Chi Minh
Fidel Castro
Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first to publicly state the Domino Theory while discussing the need to defend South Vietnam from North Vietnamese Communists. The analogy of a row of dominos, arranged so that when one falls it causes the rest to fall one after the other, was used to express the notion that when one country in a region becomes Communist, neighboring nations will then begin to fall under Communist rule. This was an operative theory that guided U.S. policy in Southeast Asia during the 1950s and ?60s.
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