During the Cold War, how were the policy of containment and the domino theory related? The United States thought that if Communism could not be contained, then countries would fall to Communism like dominoes. ... The United States would use economic and military measures to prevent the spread of Communism.
The policy of containment helped the USSR establish a number of buffer zones, or “dominoes.” The United States believed that containment would make it easier for countries to fall to Communism like dominoes.
