Ho Chi Minh

According to Moss (2009) Ho Chi Minh led the Vietnamese Minh Independence movement from 1941 onward, establishing the communist governed Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and defeating the French Union in 1954. Minh was thought to be a highly visible figurehead and inspiration for Vietnamese fighting to the death for his cause, a United Vietnam, until his death. The people of Vietnam recognized his cause then determination to fighting for independence that the people remained the capital of South Vietnam in his honor as Ho Chi Minh City. Memory plays an important role in how history is interpreted. People remember from growing up as a child, than becoming an adult is what shapes them into who they have become. Many people can relate to history when considerations where they live and the freedoms they have. Listening to grandparents talk about war periods, recession, automobiles, television, radio shows, etc., allows one to imagine a time when they weren’t around. People can easily relate to those whom they love and respect.

In accordance with the rest of history, the incident of the 1945 Declaration of Independence had many effects. The immediate consequence of the Declaration of Independence was the French determination to recolonize Vietnam, which led to a compromise with Ho Chi Minh. After they had declared themselves an independent state, there was a chance for the American’s to recognize the government of Vietnam, but they were more intent on rebuilding Europe. France however had more on their minds than just returning France to its full glory, it wanted to re-enter it’s lost colonies. They wanted to reclaim what they believed was their territory to reclaim. The US, who had previously sided with Vietnam, and supported Ho, changed sides. This could be

Throughout reading multiple different sources, it was very difficult to fully assess Ho Chi Minh’s role in the Geneva Accords negotiation. The Geneva Accords allowed for a national election to determine the destiny of Vietnam in 1956. This was an election that Ho was heavily favored to win because he had a large following, and northern Vietnam was more densely populated than southern Vietnam. South Vietnam recognized this and refused to allow the election to happen, so Ho Chi Minh created the National Liberation Front for southern Vietnam. This began the second war in an attempt to unify Vietnam once again (Kirkpatrick). To his people Ho Chi Minh was known as “Uncle Ho”. He remained as a strong symbol for Vietnam’s unification (History.com Staff). While in the midst of a second war, the Vietcong, know as Guerrillas, were conducting strong revolt against the U.S. aided regime in South Vietnam. Later, Ho Chi Minh conceded his position as the party’s secretary-general; however, he remained chief of state. Since this point on, the majority of his undertakings were behind-the-scenes. Ho still continued to have an immense amount of influence in the government. His old followers dominated this. He focused on becoming more and more of a symbol to the people of Vietnam. His public personality is best symbolized by his popularly known name; Uncle Ho. Uncle Ho symbolized the idea of unification in a divided Vietnamese nation (Ho Chi

Two very different leaders, one liked by many and one despised by many, are Ho Chi Minh and Adolf Hitler. Hitler’s hatred of communists completely opposes Ho Chi Minh’s ideas. However, both Minh and Hitler wanted liberation and independence for their countries to be able to function independently. They both spent their lives attempting to gain their wishes of attaining the government they viewed as best for the countries. Minh’s goal was to get Vietnamese independence from the French and to blend Communism with Nationalism. When Minh was forced to leave China because the nationalists wanted to get rid of left wing radicals, he decided to go to Russia, joined the Comintern, but continued travelling back and forth. He became the leader of the Vietnamese communist party and started a revolution with the end goal of the independence of Indochina. Like Hitler, he was placed in prison for his wishes that went against the governmental ideas that he hoped would result in freedom. After his time in prison, he founded the Viet Minh in order to finally gain independence for Vietnam. The Japanese gave up Northern Vietnam, and Ho Chi Minh established himself as president of the Democratic state of Vietnam. Hitler also established himself as a leader and decided to take matters into his own hands. Ho Chi Minh and the Vietcong were then able to defeat the anti communist French controlled South Vietnam in the battle Dien Bien Phu. Minh fought for the freedom of others, did not let his power get to his head, and was able to get the people what they wanted, and was not fighting on behalf of himself, rather for others.

The leader of this communist introduction and development in Vietnam was Ho Chi Minh. Ho Chi Minh, born Nguyen Tat Thanh, grew up with a passion for freeing his country of the French. Ho Chi Minh worked hard on his French when his tutor told him, “If you want to defeat the French, you must understand them. To understand the French you must study the French language.” Ho Chi Minh’s patriotism developed mainly from his Chinese-language instructor, Hoang Thong, who was anti- French himself. Thong believed that losing one’s family was worse than losing one’s country. Ho Chi Minh’s first involvement against political action came on May 9, 1908 when he joined a peasant uprising as a translator. Attempting to translate in the front of the crowd, he was beaten and forced to hide at his friend’s house at night to prevent being arrested. In the following years, Ho Chi Minh yearned to go overseas; he said to journalist Anna Louise Strong, “The people of Vietnam, including my own father, often wondered who would help them to remove them the yoke of French control…I saw that I must go abroad to see for myself. After I had found out how they lived, I

Starting off with what was going on in Vietnam, before the war ever happened. There already had been fighting for decades in Vietnam. The Vietnamese have suffered under the ruling of the French for nearly 6 decades, then the Japanese decided to join in by invading portions of Vietnam in 1940. After a 30 year long traveling trip, Ho Chi Minh came back to Vietnam in 1941. Once he was back, Ho Chi Minh setup base in Northern Vietnam and established the Viet Minh, goal was to rid Vietnam of the French and Japanese. Once they gained support and tried to establish a new government. The French wasn’t going to give up without a fight.

King Kamehameha and Ho Chi Minh had both helped their own people and land thrive. Kamehameha had fought many battles, strategically, courageously, and resiliently. Not to mention, Kamehameha made sure of the safety of his people and used the Ahupua’a system in order for each area to have an equal amount of resources. The skilled warrior had acquired all the Hawaiian Islands after years of battles with other ali’is. He was able to allege his people well, not only by using the Ahupua’a system, but because he created laws that protected his people. Ho Chi Minh had also governed his people well. He was the President of North Vietnam, or the Democratic State of Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh had also established many organizations to help his people. His

Ho Chi Minh was viewed as a wise teacher and affectionately called ‘Uncle Ho’. He guided Vietnam to independence by organising guerrilla warfare and creating the Viet Minh organisation to overthrow the French. Ho Chi Minh had many ideas about unification and nationalism, and used his ideas strategically

There are figures in the Vietnam War, and maybe in all of history, that merit consideration as much as North Vietnamese pioneer Ho Chi Minh. In the same way, as other Vietnamese regular citizen that partook in the Vietnam War, Ho Chi Minh grew up under French royal run the show. Amid his youth, pre-adulthood, and adulthood, Ho saw the genuine harming impacts colonialism had on his nation. Disappointed with French dominion and European communism, Ho Chi Minh tried to build up a political rationality that would serve Vietnam through its autonomy. Through his adolescence, and encounters abroad, Ho Chi Minh built up a political belief system that was genuinely interesting to hostile to imperialism, and Vietnam.

Ho Chi Minh Ho Chi Minh was a Communist, who had announced Vietnam independent. He was a Marxist and believed in “national Communism ". Throughout the war with the French, Ho Chi Minh took refuge in northern Vietnam and settled there with his followers. He founded the Indochina Communist Party and the Viet Minh. North Vietnam was a deprived area and was cut off from the agricultural profit of South Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh was forced to ask assistance from main Communist allies, the Soviet Union and China. Both aided North Vietnam before and during the war. (Dong Si Nguyen, Duong xuyen Truong son: hoi uc.  Hanoi: Nha Xuat Ban Quan Doi Nhan Dan, 1999). Ho Chi Minh declared the independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. This had been a tremendously significant event in world history perhaps the most important event since the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. It marked the first occasion in human history in which a radical national movement under Communist leadership had succeeded in overthrowing the influence of a colonial state and establishing and maintaining its own new, independent form of social and political system. However, Ho’s type of communism was markedly different than that of Marxist ideology that had been the metaphorical icon of the October Revolution. alike to Jose Antonio’s fascist movement, the hierarchical communist party (later renamed the Vietminh) conformed intimately to the ideas of the person at its head, but unlike Antonio’s movement, did not

The most prominent North Vietnam leaders were Nguyen Giap and Ho Chi Minh and their contributions has a substantial effect on the Vietnam War. Giap was the Commander in Chief of the North Vietnam Army and is considered as one of the greatest commanders in history. Giap was directly involved in many important campaigns during the Vietnam War such as the Tet Offensive (January 30, 1968- Febuary 22, 1968), the Easter Offensive (March 30, 1972 - October 22, 1972) and the final Ho Chi Minh Campaign (April 9, 1975- April 30, 1975) (Rohn 1). Ho Chi Ming was a North Vietnam leader who believed in communism. He created the Viet Minh (communist front) which helped him fight for Vietnamese independence against

This investigation will examine the question: Is it more accurate to describe Ho Chi Minh as a communist or nationalist? Focusing on the time Ho Chi Minh was president of the communist-ruled Democratic Republic of Vietnam(1945-69) will allow for a proper analysis on his actions as ruler of North Vietnam to determine what type of leader he was, as well as the US role in his portrayal.

He had to hide from the French Secret police while there. Once returning to Vietnam (then split into North and South Vietnam) he united the majority of the people in Vietnam under his communist ideas. His goals were Independence for Vietnam, a worker-peasant-soldier government, government ownership of everything, shorter work days, elimination of unfair taxes, free education, and equality of sexes. Ho Chi Minh even created a declaration of Independence. Parts of this declaration included parts from the U.S. Constitution. (Gavin) This was shown as a sign of respect. This goals united his people to fight for their cause and to stop the suffering of the Vietnamese

Hồ Chí Minh (Vietnamese pronunciation: [hô̤ tɕǐmɪŋ] ( listen), Chữ Nôm: 胡志明), born Nguyễn Sinh Cung and also known as Nguyễn Ái Quốc (19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969) was a Vietnamese Marxist revolutionary leader who was prime minister (1945–1955) and president (1945–1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). He formed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and led the Việt cộng during the Vietnam War until his death.

Born in a province primarily populated by peasants, Ho Chi Minh was destined to change the future of the lives in Vietnam. In Nghe An province, in the year 1890, Ho Chi Minh was born with Nguyen Sinh Cung. Nghe An province, in central Vietnam, was known for having the most rebellious people in the country. According to Duiker, when he turned 11, based on Vietnamese traditions, his father named him Nguyen Tat Thanh, “he who will succeed”. The National Academy in Hue, Vietnam, was the school that Ho Chi Minh later attended. He was dismissed after contributing to peasant revolts in 1908. During the summer of 1911, Ho Chi Minh left Saigon, Vietnam, in order to travel to France so he could find the solutions to free Vietnam. In 1940, shortly after he returned to Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh established the Vietnam Independence League (Vietminh), which was an organization controlled by communists. Courage is not backing down from a challenge, being able to take risks, or doing something that one is afraid of. Ho Chi Minh embodied an abundance of courage, as seen in his early life, his life in France, and his time as a communist leader. Ho Chi Minh displayed courage