I'm just wondering that these terms mean?

Question

I was doing a research on war and politics and I came over a few words that I did not get. Like in the Vietnam Wars, the term domino theory was used. Can you explain to me who invented the term when and what it is? also the Checks and Balances system in our government. I have the slightest idea of what it is. I appreciate all helps.

Answer 1

The domino theory was a 20th Century foreign policy theory, promoted by the government of the United States, that speculated if one land in a region came under the influence of Communists, then more would follow in a domino effect. The domino effect suggests that some change, small in itself, will cause a similar change nearby, which then will cause another similar change, and so on in linear sequence, by analogy to a falling row of dominoes standing on end. The Domino Theory was prosecuted by successive United States administrations during the Cold War, primarily to justify America's escalating intervention in the civil war in Vietnam in the 1960s.

The domino theory was first proposed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his top advisers in 1954 to describe the prospects of communist expansion across Asia if Indochina were to fall. Eisenhower argued that all of southeast Asia could fall under the sway of Communism (and by implication, under the de facto control of Communist China and/or the Soviet Union) unless America and its allies took direct action against Communist-backed "national liberation" movements in countries like South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, which were seen as being especially vulnerable to a Communist takeovers.

The checks and balances is a system where the three branches of the government the Supreme court, the President, and Congress make sure that no one branch gets too powerful.

Answer 2

The domino theory is this: if one country falls to Communism, it will knock over the country next to it, and that country will fall, and it will knock over the next country, and soon the whole region will be Communist, and finally the whole world. Just like a row of dominoes falling. The idea was that if South Vietnam falls, more countries will fall, etc. This was the reason we had to keep South Vietnam from falling.
Checks and balances is basic to our U.S. form of government. We have three branches of government: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. The Legislative branch makes the laws; the Executive branch carries out the laws; the Judicial branch interprets the laws and judges whether a law has been broken. Each branch of the government is able to place some limits on the power of the other two branches, so no one branch has total power.
In military matters, for instance, the Executive (in the person of the President) orders troops into combat. But the Legislature (Congress) decides whether to pay for this activity pr not, so Congress can keep the troops from going. The Courts can determine whether the President or Congress is acting legally or not, and so exercises some limitations on them. If the Legislature doesn't like a Judicial decision, it can change the law.

Answer 3

the Checks and Balances system is a name for the control system of the governement that states that there are 3 powerful political American factors:

1. The White House
2. The Congress
3. The supreme court

These 3 factors all control eachother and so keep another factor from taking ful control, example:

The president can use a veto in congress, but the congress can can choose not to give money to a presidents plan.

the president assigns judges in the supreme court. and the supreme court can declare a congress law "unconstitutional," ...

These are very refined systems, but the question is if they work in a twopartysystem

Answer 4

Really?..... Just how old are you?.... You are doing research on war and politics (very deep and complicated subjects) and you don't know about dominoes? Or what checks and balances in your own government are? You have a very difficult task ahead of you.