During the Cold War, how were the policy of containment and the domino theory related?

Containment was the U.S. policy of preventing communism from spreading to new countries. The domino theory warned that if one country became communist, nearby countries might follow one by one, like falling dominoes. Together, these ideas explain why the United States tried to contain communism: it feared that unchecked expansion could lead to more countries falling to it.

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