Usually means: Fear that communism would spread.
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▸ noun:  (politics, historical) Synonym of domino effect

Similar:
domino effect, politicism, powerism, dominionism, anacyclosis, domopolitics, Wilder effect, bossism, transformism, do-ocracy, more...

Opposite:
non-interventionism, isolationism, containment

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Similar:
domino effect, politicism, powerism, dominionism, anacyclosis, domopolitics, Wilder effect, bossism, transformism, do-ocracy, more...

Opposite:
non-interventionism, isolationism, containment



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