President Eisenhower Used the __________ Theory to Explain Why the United

question 55

Multiple Choice

President Eisenhower used the __________ theory to explain why the United States needed to fight communism in Vietnam.

• A)social Darwinist
• B)Asian inferiority
• C)Chinese empirical
• D)western superiority
• E)falling domino

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