USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Eisenhower articulated it as 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, ” Eisenhower said.

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: -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. The so-called “domino theory” dominated U.S. thinking about Vietnam for the next decade.

Detailed explanation-4: -On April 7, 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower answered a press conference reporter’s question about the impending defeat of the French in Indochina with the first articulation of what would become known as “The Domino Theory.” The theory would drive the escalation of the Vietnam War over the next two decades.