1. Domino theory overestimated the threat of the communism and didn " t conform to the reality "

2. Various scholars examined the domino theory in detail and found little historical or contemporary evidence to support it.

3. Again and again in the internal record, and in the public pronouncements , one sees references to this psychological domino theory.

4. Consider, for example, the infamous "domino theory," kicking around in one form or another since President Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1954 "falling dominoes" speech.

5. The Domino Theory, which Eisenhower put forward in April 19 is the guidance theory in the Vietnam War that four American governments carried out later.

6. Heath supported the Domino Theory and wrote that if the French pulled out "Only the blind could doubt the immediate Communist engulfment of Southeast Asia."

7. The US was driven by Cold War concerns about the spread of communism, particularly "domino theory" ?the idea that if one Asian nation fell to the leftist ideology, others would quickly follow.