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**THE DOMINO THEORY**
The **domino theory** was a foreign policy theory during the 1950s to 1980s, promoted at times by the [|government] of the [|United States], that speculated that if one land in a region came under the influence of [|communism], then the surrounding countries would follow in a **[|domino effect]**. The domino effect suggests that some change, small in itself, will cause a similar change nearby, which then will cause another similar change, and so on in linear sequence, by analogy to a falling row of [|dominoes] standing on end. The domino theory was used by successive [|United States] administrations during the [|Cold War] to clarify the need for American intervention around the world