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United States President Lyndon B. Johnson justified U.S. involvement in Vietnam by the “domino theory”—the idea that if Vietnam came under Communist control, other nations of Asia would fall as well. But even after the United States withdrew its troops in 1973, paving the way for a Communist victory, only two other Asian countries—Cambodia and Laos—were taken over by Communists.