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    men and we will kill one of yours. In the end, it is you who will tire.” Ho Chi Minh once spoke to this to the Americans who at the time were trying to stop his communist regime. This directly describes the length Minh was willing to go; to stop an outside country from coming and shaping his country. Ho Chi Minh changed history of many nations through his high intelligence, communist policies, and nationalism. Ho Chi Minh was one of the most intelligent men in history. He went to many nations

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    Ho Chi Minh President

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    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. Hồ led the Việt Minh independence movement from 1941 onward, establishing

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    Ho Chi Minh He combined nationalism to communism and perfected the deadly art of guerrilla warfare. An emaciated, goateed figure in a threadbare bush jacket and tattered rubber sandals, Ho Chi Minh refined the image of a humble, benign "Uncle Ho." But he was a skilled revolutionary and passionate nationalist obsessed by a single goal: independence for his country. Sharing his passion, his dirty guerrillas cleared daunting obstacles to crush France's

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    Ho Chi Minh Ideology

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    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. Ask about whether to include childhood and early beliefs The first source that will be evaluated is Ho Chi Minh’s 1945 address in Hanoi “Vietnamese Declaration

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    Vietnam War: Ho Chi Minh

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    Ho Chi Minh “Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and cypress to show their strength and their stability.” That was proclaimed by Ho Chi Minh about the hardship that Vietnam would endure. Minh would be the one to lead Vietnam through their hardship. He led his country through two different wars in his life time. One of which was against a very formidable foe, the USA. Through the storm Minh and Vietnam did show their strength, creating

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    Ho Chi Minh and The Vietnam War

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    The declaration of Vietnamese independence made by Ho Chi Minh in 1945 served as a milestone in what was a century-old struggle against foreign control. In its history Vietnam had spent 1000 years under control of the Chinese and had resisted this control vehemently. Revolts and rebellions against China finally lead to Vietnamese independence in the tenth century. In the thirteenth century the Vietnamese drove back Kublai Khan three times under the leadership Dao. Tran Hung Dao not only led the

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    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

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    Ho Chi Minh Quotes

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    struggled to control its colonies in Indochina, which consisted of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Ho Chi Minh, a communist leader who led the Viet Minh, and his forces captured back much of Vietnam while the French were busy fighting WWII. The French were infuriated with the actions of Ho Chi Minh and his forces and decided to once again enter into Vietnam, where they fought a lengthy, hard battle with the Viet Minh forces. The fighting between the French and Vietnamese continued into the mid 1950s, but was

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    Ho Chi Minh, who was the North Vietnamese leader in the Vietnam War, explored the communist world in the early to mid twentieth century. Venturing throughout Asia and Europe, Ho Chi Minh faced obstacles in China where he established the Communist Party of Vietnam, but later he named it the Indochinese Communist Party. Being the founder of the party in 1930, was an early date prior to the 1954 Vietnam War which in the mean time he had imagined his home country to be communist and had set out to do

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    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

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    Based off of what I read in the book it appears to me that even though Ho Chi Minh sided with the communists he was more interested in the freedom of the Vietnamese people more than anything. I think that if the Soviets or the Chinese tried to tell him how to run his country just like the United States did then he would have broken contacts with them and would have sought allies from somewhere else. Because at the end of the day Ho Chi Minh’s main objective was liberation by any means necessary no matter

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    Ho Chi Minh did not live to witness the last helicopter lift off from the U.S. Embassy roof on April 30th 1975, an event that marked the fall of Saigon and the final stage of a decades long conflict. Ho died in 1969, six years shy of realizing his lifelong dream of a unified and independent Vietnam. Ho’s leadership was central to a victory won against formidable adversaries with vast resources; first the colonial French, and later an illegitimate South Vietnamese regime propped up by U.S power. Beginning

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    Ho Chi Minh, Politics, and North Vietnam North Vietnam, September 2, 1945, Ho Chi Minh declared independence from France. Ho Chi Minh's "Independence Day" was marked with a new constitution and a new name, The Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Ho's speech on the day of Vietnamese Independence was one of freedom, freedom against French domination. Inspiration of Ho's speech was one from American history and history has a tendency to repeat itself. Like the very past of America and Europe, French

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    Ho Chi Minh’s speech was very concise and to the point. He did not add anything to his speech that could be consider superfluous. He started off my stating what he believed were “undeniable truths”, truths that other nations in their own country, specifically the United States of America and France. He then goes on to list some of the various actions of the French colonialists against the people of Vietnam. More about this will be explain in further detail later on. After citing all the mistakes

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    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

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    Chapter 18 portrayed the gruesome Vietnam War as the greatest antiwar movement the nation has faced. North Vietnam, led by Communist Ho Chi Minh, fought against South Vietnam, a democratic nation, for the expansion of land. Ho Chi Minh took control of Indochina from Japan. England occupied the southern part of Indochina and gave it to the French. Nationalist China controlled northern part of Indochina and neglected to return the land to the French due to its immense wealth in rubber and coal

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    despite everything that the French had implored upon Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh speaks about the French and Japanese battling for the Vietnam territory and ultimately the Vietnamese Republic paid the price. Minh argued the fact that despite an increase in the "sufferings and miseries" of the Vietnamese people, they continued to assist the French in battle. Minh stated that the Vietnamese extended a tolerant attitude toward the French. Minh also stated the Vietnamese helped the French cross the frontier

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    “Con trai , chúng tôi đang ở đây.” Those were the first few words my father spoke to wake me up upon landing in my parent’s holy majestic birthplace, Vietnam. Exhausted and excited, I replied back in a tiring voice to my father saying how excited it was to be back in this glorious country in my native tongue, “Cuối cùng , tôi không thể tin rằng chúng tôi đang ở đây.” Father alongside with mother gave a heartwarming smile towards me and I knew, this was going to be the greatest vacation trip ever

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    used by Ho Chi Minh to help Vietnam become a unified and independent nation in the 1970s. Ho Chi Minh, a Marxist Leninist, charismatic and populist leader, adopted communism through his experiences, struggles, and challenges. Communism came to play an important role in bringing Vietnam independence and freedom from the French and subsequent colonialist rulers. Ho Chi Minh used communist to help the Vietnamese develop feelings of patriotism and nationalism toward the country. Ho Chi Minh created

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    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

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