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 fell to Communism, nearby countries might follow in sequence. Therefore, the United States believed that failing to contain Communism could lead to countries falling to it like dominoes, making D the correct choice.

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