Question 8 • US History
Vietnam’s rebellion against France ended with the country divided, with communist rule in North Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh. This strengthened the communist movement there, and the possibility that Vietnam would become communist worried people in the United States. US leaders also feared that neighboring countries might fall to communism, an idea known as the domino theory; they did not expect those countries to fall to democracy.
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