Answer: The cause of Shakespeare's death is a mystery, but an entry in the diary of John Ward, the vicar of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford (where Shakespeare is buried), tells us that "Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting and it seems drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted.
It was primarily the "b. formation of the Vietcong in Vietnam" that led the Truman administration to expand the containment doctrine to include Asia, since this was seen as a threat to democratic principles in the west as well.
