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America's Longest War, 4/e
George Herring, University of Kentucky-Lexington
A Dead-End Alley: The United States, France, and the First Indochina War, 1950-1954

Internet Exercise 1

The Domino Theory

Please read the following excerpt of President Dwight Eisenhower's April 7, 1954 press conference:

http://www.uiowa.edu/~c030162/Common/Handouts/POTUS/IKE.html



1

According to President Eisenhower, what factors made Vietnam strategically important to the United States? Which of these considerations did Eisenhower assert was most important?


2

What did Eisenhower mean by the "falling domino" principle? How did he connect the domino theory to Vietnam?


3

Do you agree with the basic premise of the domino theory? Why or why not?










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