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President Eisenhower is justifying U.S. military involvement in which country?

Finally, you have broader considerations that might follow what you would call 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. So you could have a beginning of a disintegration that would have the most profound influences.

—President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954
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Cuba

Cuba

Vietnam

Vietnam

Japan

Japan

Greece

Greece

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President Eisenhower is justifying U.S. military involvement in **Vietnam**. The "falling domino" principle he refers to is associated with the belief that if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would follow, particularly during the context of the Cold War and U.S. efforts to contain communism.

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