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...
After triumphing in the second Northern Expedition, Chiang Kai-shek asked rhetorically in Shantou, “Where did we learn the organizational tactics for our army? You probably don't know. But to be honest, we really copied the Soviet Red Army.” He added, “Had it not been for the help o...
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 ...
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...
He replied via the paper that he did not know much about it, but that he would research it and get back to her. Once he did the research, he printed a response telling her to meet him at 3 p.m. the next Saturday in Pioneer Square, and he would take her on a tour of the ...
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 ...