Ho Chi Minh

Background
Born May 19, 1890 in Kim Lien a small village in
Vietnam.
He lived in London and Paris in the early 1900s
and was a founding memer of the French
Communist Party.
He visited Moscow for training at Comintern a
program started by Lenin to promote world
revolution

Influences
He was greatly influenced by his father who was a
teacher employed by the French. He was a very
strong nationalist and he influenced Ho Chi greatly
as a child.
This influence was later on extended when he was
studying the works of Karl Marx

Opponents
As the President of the Communist Party of North
Vietnam his two enemies were South Vietnam and
the United States

Acts of Protest
After the Japanese invasion of Indo-China in 1941,
Minh returned home and founded the Viet Minh , a
communist-dominated independence movement.
At the end of World War II the Viet Minh announced
Vietnamese independence. The French refused to
relinquish their colony and in 1946, war broke out.
The country was split in North and South Vietnam
and Ho Chi Minh was the President of Communist
North Vietnam

Goals and Aftermath

Ho Chi Minh had one goal in mind: to reunite
Vietnam under communist rule. Sadly he never
lived to see this. Ho Chi Minh was in poor health
from the mid-1960s and died on September 2nd
1969.
In 1975 the Communists took the South
Vietnamese capital Saigon and they renamed it Ho
Chi Minh City in his honor