He then adopted his last pseudonym, Ho Chi Minh, which translates into "Light-Bringer". During 1946, Ho Chi Minh desperately sought to avoid hostilities but the conflict with the French could not be solved and he began to prepare for war together with General Vo Nguyen Giap, the leader of...
Ho Chi Minh was born Nguyen Sinh Cung in Nghe An province, northern Vietnam. His father, Nguyen Sinh Huy, was a teacher who worked for French colonists before losing his job for refusing to learn the French language. This independent spirit was passed on to young Nguyen Sinh Cung and his...
Ho Chi Minh(born May 19, 1890, Hoang Tru,Vietnam, French Indochina—died September 2, 1969,Hanoi, North Vietnam) was the founder of the Indochina Communist Party (1930) and itssuccessor, the Viet-Minh (1941), andpresidentfrom 1945 to 1969 of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North ...
Ho Chi Minh Inspired by the success ofVladimir Lenin’sBolshevik Revolution, he joined the new FrenchCommunist Partyin 1920 and traveled to Moscow three years later. He soon began recruiting members of a Vietnamese nationalist movement that would form the basis of the Indochinese Communist Party...
In 1919 he joined the French Socialist Party and in 1920, after the party fell apart, he become a member of the French Communist Party. He became an expert in colonialism issues. In 1922 he was delegated to Moscow, where he studied the doctrine and techniques of Communism. In 1925 he wa...
French colonial policiesIndochinaDoumer RegimeassimilationallianceHo Chi Minh is one of the towering figures of the twentieth century, considered an icon and father of the nation by many Vietnamese. Pierre Brocheux's biography of Ho Ch...
Who Was Ho Chi Minh and What Did He Do? Who was Ho Chi Minh and what did he do? Born Nguyen Sinh Cung on May 19, 1890 in the small village of Kim Lien in the Nghe province ofFrench Indochina, Ho was introduced to the struggle for independence at an early age. His father was ...
In 1945, Ho Chi Minh, leader of the communist Viet Minh organization, declared Vietnam’s independence from Japan, in a speech that invoked the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the French Revolution’s Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. However, the French quickly re...
Ho, like the rest of the French Communist Party, had been inspired by theRussian Revolution. In 1924, he visited the Soviet Union. While in Moscow, Ho wrote to a friend that it was the duty of all communists to return to their own country to: "make contact with the masses to awaken...
Vietnam Divided: Communist North & Non-Communist South After eight years of war, the French were defeated at the battle of Dien Bien Phu and forced to withdraw from Vietnam. At the Geneva peace talks, Vietnam was divided into communist North and non-communist South. Ho Chi-Minh became the...