f pride for Germans and that they were the supreme race. Yet it also vocalized a lot of hatred for other races and countries. The Germans loved to hear this and gave Hitler a lot of power. Then Hitler capitalized on this power and took over the government and began WW II. During W.W.II Germany acted in a situation which could also be labeled as the domino theory. Everytime that Germany gain control of another country it became easier to just take over the next. And suddenly almost all of Europe was under German control. That example goes almost identically with John Foster Dulles?s statement about the spirit of nationalism. The other example I mentioned was Russia in the 1910?s. The Tzar?s of Russia had the rule of Russia and the were very rich. And just like Germany almost everyone else was very poor. There was also a revolution and that got the Tzar?s out of power and Lenin in power just like Hitler in Germany. That was the beginning of communism in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was a communist threat to the rest of the world for the next 70 years. The event for which I previously stated that the domino theory was named for, communism in Southeast Asia, took place in the 1950?s-1970?s. In both cases China was supporting the aggressor. The cases were North Korea attacking South Korea, and North Vietnam attacking South Vietnam. In both cases America intervened with military action. We were not the only country though that saw this action as very dangerous, Australia did too. In September of 1954, Minister of Defense, Sir Philip McBride, said, ?It is a matter of vital importance to maintain the gap between Australia and the present high-water mark of the southward flow of communism. Should this gap narrow, the nature and scale of attack on Australia would become intensified as distance shortened. Finally, should the tide of communism lap on our shores, we would face an intolerable defense burden and a scale of attack which would be ...
