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Birth
He was born in the village of Hoàng Trù (the name of the local temple near Làng Sen), the village of his mother -
Life in France
Apparently due to the motto "liberty, equality and fraternity" he was motivated to go to France; however, prevailing colonial law did not allow native Vietnamese to leave the country. However, the only way to move to Europe at the time was to take a job on a ship, so he traveled first to London and then to Paris. -
Start in politics
From 1919 to 1923, Ho became interested in politics while living in France, influenced by his friend and member of the French Socialist Party, Marcel Cachin. In Paris he joined the Groupe des Patriotes Annamites (The Group of Vietnamese Patriots). He slowly added the doctrine of Marxism to his political thinking: he joined the Socialist Party and later the Communist Party. He also attended the founding congress of the latter party in the last month of 1920. -
Time in the Soviet Union
He later traveled to Moscow in 1923, where he participated in various congresses of the Ecumenical Communist. He later moved to China as an interpreter and assistant to Mikhail Gruzenberg Borodin, an adviser to the Kuomintang in its collaboration with the Communist Party of China. -
Fundation Republic of Vietnam
The Viet Minh organized the general uprising, obtained national freedom (September 2, 1945, proclaimed in Hanoi) and founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, a communist state. -
Ho Chi Minh president
France gave in and had to ask for the support of the United States; however, American support was of no avail. After the battle of Điện Biên Phủ (May 7, 1954), the French are defeated and Hồ Chí Minh is proclaimed president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. -
Vietnam war
The war against France has been followed by a war between North Vietnam and South Vietnam, who were supported by the United States. The war ended in 1975, well over 5 years after Ho Chi Minh's death, when North Vietnamese forces invaded the South and defeated his battalion. -
Death
Ho Chi Minh died on the morning of September 2, 1969 at his home in Hanoi due to cardiac arrest at the age of 79 due to tuberculosis. Ho Chi Minh's tomb is located in Ba Dinh Square in Hanoi, the country's largest city. Ho died before the end of the war with the Americans, so he could not see a united communist Vietnam.