Was the domino theory in the vietnam war correct?
While the above poster means well, he unfortunately is not correct. All of the countries he mentioned did in fact become Communist dictatorships, but their individual falls did not have anything to do with each other. Even the fall of North Korea was not related to anything else, not even China, as North Korea was occupied by Russia a few years before China had their own home-grown revolution. The Domino Theory says that when a country is toppled by Communism, its toppling will trigger the toppling of another country and another and another (specifically, by convincing these other countries that they have no hope of assistance from the Free World). Yes, Laos and Cambodia did in fact fall to Communism, but their indigenous revolutions had been simmering for a very long time (and it can be argued that the Khmer Rouge revolution was almost completely unrelated to the Communist movement in North Vietnam). In the late 1970s there were a large number of countries in Africa that outwardly acc
