For the Following Question,refer to the Following Speech by President

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For the following question,refer to the following speech by President Dwight Eisenhower. Finally,you have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the "falling domino" principle.You have a row of dominoes set up,you know over the first one,and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly.So you could have a beginning of a disintegration that would have the most profound influences....
But when we come to the possible sequence of events the loss of Indochina,of Burma,of Thailand,of the Peninsula,and Indonesia following,now you begin to talk about areas that not only multiply the disadvantages that you would suffer through loss of materials,sources of materials,but now you're talking about millions and millions and millions of people.
President Dwight Eisenhower,speech,April 7,1954
The sentiments expressed by President Eisenhower in the excerpt above were most directly responsible for

• A) liberal principles coming to dominate postwar politics.
• B) debates over the merits of the military-industrial complex.
• C) the rise of sizable,passionate,and sometimes violent antiwar protests.
• D) the emergence of will to expand American military influence in Indochina.

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