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This is a statement made by President Dwight D. Eisenhower during a press conference on April 7,1954 You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock 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. In this statement, President Eisenhower used a metaphor to express what concern? If one nation in Southeast Asia fell to communism, other nations would follow. If the Soviet Union launched a nuclear weapon, other nations would as well. If the United States provided economic aid to one nation, other nations would request it. If one nation in Europe joined NATO, other nations would as well.

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In the year 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower made a statement popularly known as 'the domino theory'. During the cold war era, a domino effect was a concern for many, referring to the metaphorical 'line of dominoes', where a political or an economic alteration in one country would result in similar transformations in neighboring countries rapidly, akin to a collapsing line of dominoes. Here, President Eisenhower warned about the severe ramifications posed by the spread of communism with an example of how a domino falls causing all others to fall in turn. From the choice provided it is easy to narrow down this reference to the idea that once a country in Southeast Asia succumbs to communism, other nations would quickly follow suit.