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during the cold war, how were the policy of containment and the domino theory related?
the policy of containment the ussr establish a number of buffer zones, or "dominoes."
the us believed that the policy of containment would make it easier for countries to fall to communism like dominoes.
the policy of containment and the domino theory had no direct connection to one another.
the us worried that if communism could not be contained, then countries would fall to it one by one, like dominoes.