had been taken over by Japan so easily in WWII. This build-up can be shown in the maps below. As you can see the size of Japan?s power at the end of its rule is about twice as large as its power at the beginning. The countries which bordered Japan fell over to Japan very quickly as the war went on and giving Japan more power while doing so. Eisenhower saw the potential for the same type of action in Southeast-Asia, in the late 50?s through the 70?s. An example of a situation that the Domino Theory could be applied to is the Soviet Union from 1917 to the 1980?s. The Soviet Union during this period of time, gained power by militarily taking land from other countries. It not only showed a situation that the Domino Theory could be applied to, but also showed communism?s natural inclination of world domination. This signs of this inclination can be found in many places including ?Nations and Men,?2 an International Politics and Relations collegient textbook, which says, ?In the abundant communist writings of that period (the time of the beginnings of communism, around 1917) very little is found on the subject of future communist foreign policies beyond the hope that one worldwide communist commonwealth could emerge from intercapitalist world wars transformed into socialist revolutions.?3 For that very reason communism is a very important concept in understanding the Domino Theory. That ?inclination of world domination? is the reason why the communists take over other countries. When they gain control over these other countries they get larger and more powerful and its all the more easier to take over more bordering countries, which produces the a situation which can be described as the domino theory. The there are two reasons for this thinking of world domination by the communists. The first is because communists view capitalists as,?imperialist and forever trying to impose themselves on others.? And as long as capitalists are present in th...
