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POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959

KOREAS PARTITION

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“. . . you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. . . . Asia, after all, has already lost some 450 million of its people to the Communist dictatorship, and we simply can’t afford greater losses.”-Dwight D. Eisenhower What idea is President Eisenhower referring to in this quotation?
A
Domino Theory
B
Vietnamization
C
Linkage
D
Credibility Gap
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Eisenhower’s speech invoked what would come to be known as the “domino theory”-the notion that a communist takeover in Indochina would lead other Asian nations to follow suit.

Detailed explanation-3: -In Southeast Asia, the U.S. government used the now-discredited domino theory to justify its involvement in the Vietnam War and its support for a non-communist dictator in South Vietnam.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first figure to propose the domino theory was President Harry S. Truman in the 1940s, where he introduced the theory in order to “justify sending military aid to Greece and Turkey.” However, the domino theory was popularized by President Dwight D.

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