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President Eisenhower believed in the domino theory as it applied to world politics, which held that
Communism was widely dismissed and doomed to failure.
neighboring countries would rise up against Communist ones.
if one country became Communist, others would follow.
Communism would not spread between neighboring countries.

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Answer: "if one country became Communist, others would follow."

Explanation: The "domino theory" held that the fall of one nation to communism would lead to neighboring countries also falling in sequence, like a row of toppling dominos. Eisenhower used this to justify U.S. containment policies.