As they parted, Ho Chi Minh asked his visitor to carry back a message that the Vietnamese people would always be grateful for the assistance they received from the United States and would long recall it as a friend and ally, and that the American struggle for independence would always serve...
Sometimes individuals have led peaceful resistance movements that have freed their people—as Mohandas Gandhi21 did in India. After World War II, as peoples hankered to become free, David Ben-Gurion22 in Israel, Kwame Nkrumah23 in Ghana, Julius Nyerere24 in Tanzania, and Ho Chi Minh25 in ...
“The revolution did not happen that day, but it is my hope that maybe we planted some seeds for people to radically rethink what is necessary in order to save Black lives,” says Prescod‑Weinstein. Li Lanjuan: Lockdown architect This epidemiologist advised shutting down Wuhan to ...
Ho Chi Minh, the Viet Minh leader, was very popular and would have become the president of all of Vietnam in free and fair elections. However, in negotiations at the Geneva Conference in the summer of 1954, the Americans and other powers decided that Vietnam should be temporarily divided b...
Nor did Che Guevara when he dodged the Bolivian army in the jungles of South America. It was not that Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Castro and Guevara lacked the desire to form their own regimes: It was impossible for them to do so. So what made it possible in China? In November 1931, 18 ...
By the next year the French had seized Ho Chi Minh City then known as Saigon. In 1941, Ho Chi Minh leader of the communist party, gathered troops to fight for Vietnam’s independence from the French – later known as the Viet Minh. In 1946, France tried to regain control of Vietnam...
As Cao finished eleventh in the jungle primary, he did not place high enough to advance to the general election. Age: 58 Birthplace: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Allen Stanford Businessperson, Promoter, Financier Robert Allen Stanford (born March 24, 1950), known primarily by his middle name...
Not until the Trung sisters rebelled did the Vietnamese people begin to fight for their freedom. The heroic legends of these brave young women have inspired the Vietnamese people for centuries as they struggled to fight off foreign domination. Soldiers carried pictures of them into battle to ...
the U.S. Marines left Nicara. But by October of that year, Nicaraguan Gen. Emiliano Chamorro Vargas staged a successful coup d’état against Solorzano. Chamorro became president, but the U.S. did not recognize his rule; after a liberal revolt, the U.S. military in January 1926 sent...
As Cao finished eleventh in the jungle primary, he did not place high enough to advance to the general election. Age: 58 Birthplace: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Dan Richey Politician, Journalist, Lawyer Daniel Wesley "Dan" Richey is a Baton Rouge-based political consultant for "pro-family"...