Question

read the following excerpt from this speech by president eisenhower.
\you have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.\
— president dwight d. eisenhower, speech at press conference, april 7, 1954
what conclusion can be drawn about president eisenhower’s beliefs from this quotation?
a. he believed communism would expand through communist takeovers like an aligned row of dominoes.
b. he believed that communism would fall like a set of dominoes once communist countries were defeated.
c. he believed that, through takeovers, the soviet union would fall like a set of dominoes.
d. he believed that, like dominoes, the united nations would fall due to strict containment policies.

Explanation:

This quotation is the origin of the "domino theory," a Cold War foreign policy concept. Eisenhower used the domino analogy to argue that if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would follow in a chain reaction, just like dominoes toppling one after another. Option A directly matches this core belief, while the other options misinterpret the direction or target of the analogy.

Answer:

A. He believed communism would expand through communist takeovers like an aligned row of dominoes.