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Ho Chi Minh: A Vietnamese Revolutionary Leader

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Born - May 9th 1890 Nguyen Sinh Cung in a village in central Vietnam (then part of French Indochina)

Died - September 2nd 1969

What He did as a Leader Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was Chairman and First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh first emerged as an outspoken voice for Vietnamese independence while living as a young man in France during World War I.

In 1911 he found work as a cook on a French steamer and traveled for years at sea
In 1919 while living in France he organized a group at the Versailles Peace Conference to get the French colonial government in Indochina grant the same rights to its subjects as it did to its rulers.
He became part of the French communist part in 1920
He helped find the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930 and the League for the …show more content…

At World War II’s end, Viet Minh forces seized the northern Vietnamese city of Hanoi and declared a Democratic State of Vietnam (or North Vietnam) with Ho as president. Known as “Uncle Ho,” he would serve in that position for the next 25 years, becoming a symbol of Vietnam’s struggle for unification during a long and costly conflict with the strongly anti-Communist regime in South Vietnam and its ally the United States.
With the Allied victory in 1945 Ho as president. Bao Dai abdicated in favor of the revolution, but French military troops gained control of southern Vietnam, forces moved into the north. Ho began negotiations with the French in efforts to achieve a Chinese withdrawal as well as eventual French recognition of Vietnam’s independence and reunification of North and South Vietnam. But in October 1946, a French cruiser opened fire on the town of Haiphong after a clash between French and Vietnamese soldiers. Despite Ho’s best efforts to maintain peace, his followers called for war, which broke out that December. He officially stepped down from power in 1965 due to health

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