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Ho Chi Minh
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Ho Chi Minh first emerged as an outspoken voice for Vietnamese independence while living as a young man in France during World War I. Inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution, he joined the Communist Party and traveled to the Soviet Union. He helped found the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930 and the League for the Independence of Vietnam, or Viet Minh, in 1941. At World War II’s end, Viet Minh forces seized the northern Vietnamese city of Hanoi and declared a Democratic State -
Vietnamese academy
After receiving a primary education at a local school, Ho and his brother traveled to
the city of Hué to attend a prestigious Franco-Vietnamese academy. Three years
later, Ho left the academy before graduating and worked briefly as a schoolteacher in
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Viet Minh
googleHo Chi Minh was he person who ceated Viet Minh the group consisted of people who oppesed the France regime in Vietnam
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Returned home
Ho returned to Vietnam for the first time since he left the country in 1911. There, he
founded the Viet Nam Doc Lap Dong Minh (“League for the Independence of
Vietnam”), later known as simply the Viet Minh, an organization composed of
Vietnamese nationalist and communist groups committed to Vietnamese
independence. Throughout the Japanese occupation of Vietnam, the Viet Minh
fought against both French colonial authorities and the Japanese forces occupying
Vietnam. -
Japan takes control of Vietnam
googleJapan took control of Vietnam. Japan promised that the Vietnamese would get their freedom. witch also made the French Colonist leave during World War 2. -
Viet
At the close of World War II, Ho Chi Minh organized the Viet Minh to foment a
large-scale uprising in Vietnam. The Viet Minh captured major cities across Vietnam
and declared Vietnam an independent state. Vietnam became known as the
Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and Ho Chi Minh became its first president.
