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The domino theory refers to any chain of events set off by a single event. The Domino Theory is simple. One country falls to a foreign influence, in turn the country next to it falls, and then that one causes another country to fall etc. until all the countries in the area have fallen. The example contributed above is the classic given for the Domino Theory. If you're wondering why it was related to the Cold War, it was because the Soviet Union used this technique to get all the countries in Europe to be communist, and they were successful because no one would decline them because they were a world super power and they knew they would be attacked if they did decline.
. Although Vietnam is a poor Asian country, the people of the United States fought there in order to stop the domino effect of the communists. This theory stated, If South Vietnam falls to the Communist, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, India and Pakistan would also fall like dominos. The Pacific Islands and even Australia could be at risk. Basically the war was fought to hold the line against the spread of world Communism. America paid for the war the French fought against Communist Vietnam as a part of the Truman Doctrine and then by the 1950’s became involved when the war flared up again, the war against communism that is.
The ideology of National Socialism was based on the superiority of the Aryan race and German nationalism. It was intended to unify all Germans, regardless of class, for the benefit of the government.
President Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative involved space based missiles and lasers to shoot down Soviet warheads. The system never was built.
Yes. MAD is derived from the idea that when one side does something, the other side will attempt to do something at least as bad in return. Thus this escalating series of revenge will eventually destroy both sides.