Person1890 – 1969
Ho Chi Minh
Vietnamese independence leader who proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and led the wars against France and the United States
Where they went
2 related events
- 1
Nguyễn Ái Quốc (Ho Chi Minh) united several communist groups in Hong Kong into the Communist Party of Vietnam, renamed the Indochinese Communist Party later that year.
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In divided Vietnam, North Vietnam and the National Liberation Front fought US-backed South Vietnam. After the Americans withdrew, Saigon fell in 1975 and Vietnam was united under communist rule.
People who appear alongside
- Richard Nixon1913 – 1994
37th US president (1969–1974) who issued the Nixon Doctrine, visited China and pursued détente, and withdrew US troops from Vietnam; he resigned over Watergate
Themes this person appears in
- National Movements in Asia and Africa1915 – 1948
From the Hussein–McMahon correspondence to the founding of Israel — three decades in which India, West Asia, Southeast Asia and Africa, swept up in the tide of self-determination after the First World War, pressed toward independence and modernization
- The Cold War1945 – 1991
From Yalta to the dissolution of the Soviet Union — half a century in which two blocs led by the US and the USSR divided the world