President Dwight D. Eisenhower coins one of the most famous Cold War phrases when he suggests the fall of French Indochina to the communists could create a “domino” effect in Southeast Asia. The so-called “domino theory” dominated U.S. thinking about Vietnam for the next decade.
By early 1954, it was clear to many U.S. policymakers that the French were failing in their attempt to re-establish colonial control in Indochina (Vietnam), which they lost during World War II when the Japanese took control of the area. The Vietnamese nationalists, led by the communist Ho Chi Minh, were on the verge of winning a stunning victory against French forces at the battle of Dien Bien Phu. In just a few weeks, representatives from the world’s powers were scheduled to meet in Geneva to discuss a political settlement of the Vietnamese conflict. U.S. officials were concerned that a victory by Ho’s forces and/or an agreement in Geneva might leave a communist regime in control of all or part of Vietnam. In an attempt to rally congressional and public support for increased U.S. aid to the French, President Eisenhower gave a historic press conference on April 7, 1954.
He spent much of the speech explaining the significance of Vietnam to the United States. First was its economic importance, “the specific value of a locality in its production of materials that the world needs” (materials such as rubber, jute, and sulphur). There was also the “possibility that many human beings pass under a dictatorship that is inimical to the free world.” Finally, the president noted, “You have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the ‘falling domino’ principle.” Eisenhower expanded on this thought, explaining, “You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is a certainty that it will go over very quickly.” This would lead to disintegration in Southeast Asia, with the “loss of Indochina, of Burma, of Thailand, of the Peninsula, and Indonesia following.” Eisenhower suggested that even Japan, which needed Southeast Asia for trade, would be in danger.
Eisenhower’s words had little direct immediate impact–a month later, Dien Bien Phu fell to the communists, and an agreement was reached at the Geneva Conference that left Ho’s forces in control of northern Vietnam. In the long run, however, Eisenhower’s announcement of the “domino theory” laid the foundation for U.S. involvement in Vietnam. John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson both used the theory to justify their calls for increased U.S. economic and military assistance to non-communist South Vietnam and, eventually, the commitment of U.S. armed forces in 1965.
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After warning about the military industrial complex, Eisenhower played right into the hands of the military industrial complex.
1965 was a very bad year for America.
What a different world it would be had Goldwater won.
He was a mass murdering member of the tribe. The tribe has contrived doomsday prophecies of Armageddon, and work in a continuum going back thousands of years, to fulfill every horror described in Revelation. No coincidence every Abrahamic pseudo religion, including Satanism, shares the same doomsday prophecies. Communism, being another Jewish false ideology promising a utopia by making things worse, facilitates those aforementioned doomsday prophecies.
The time is now for our mass epiphany. It won’t come from the scriptures of the enemies of life and creation.
Who, Eisenhower or Goldwater?
Maybe both?
eisenhower was a bolshevik and a war criminal
Yea. Thanks for warning us about the monster you helped create, Ike.
Empty words from another Zio Commie member of the tribe. WWII was about culling White Nationalism to the benefit of Globalism/Communism. How do any among us imagine over 2,000,000 Soviet troops, and over 40,000 Soviet battle tanks and a likewise number of Soviet war planes, of America design thanks to FDR, came to be poised to invade, not just Nation Socialist Germany, but all of war weary Western Europe on June 22, 1941? Had the hopelessly out numbered Wehrmacht not laid down their lives in a preemptive Operation Barbarossa, the West would have been swept over by Communism over 80 years ago. Still to this day, none among us can direct us to a viable National Socialist gas chamber which would facilitate human euthanasia, nor account for the disposal of even 1,000,000 bodies. Let alone 4,000,000 to 6,000,000, or whatever the current lies being told by mainstream academia.
Search for;
Eisenhower’s Death Camp
The Destruction of Dresden
Stalin’s Mass Rape of Eastern Europe
The Chief Culprit, by Viktor Suvorov
Suvorov also wrote ‘Icebreaker’ which was about the soviet build up to the
invasion of western europe, which Hitler knew was coming and began
setting up operation barbarosa
Eisenhower was a traitor, that sold out America to the military industrial complex. He admitted the situation, but he never accepted the blame. Our so called leaders are all traitors….
this is also the day in history in 1994 that the rwandan genocide began —