14 Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows.
China is so large, looms so high just beyond the frontiers,
that if South Viet-Nam went, it would not only give them
an improved geographic position for a guerrilla assault on
Malaya, but would also give the impression that the wave of
the future in southeast Asia was China and the Communists.
-President John F. Kennedy, televised interview,
September 9, 1963
Which idea reflected in these remarks formed the basis for U.S.
involvement in Vietnam?
F Nuclear deterrence
G Flexible response
H Domino theory
J Iron Curtain
