A policy to stop Communism spreading to more countries
A policy to win the Cold War
By bringing about the collapse of the Soviet Union from within
A long-term policy
The ‘Domino Theory’
It was an Asian dimension to their containment policy
China and North Korea had already been “lost” to Communism
The Americans believed that if one more country in South East Asia turned communist all the others would fall too, one after another, like a row of dominoes
Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Thailand, Malaya; even India, Pakistan, Indonesia and Japan where all in the row, with Vietnam the first domino