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Ho Chi Minh

            In 1890 in a rural Vietnamese town, a boy was born with the name Nguyen Tat Thanh. He attended a local school taught by his fathers' friend, Vuong Thuc Qui. Vuong Thuc Qui believed in teaching his students the core of Confucian classical writings while simultaneously instilling in their minds a fierce patriotic spirit for the survival of an independent Vietnam. Nguyen Tat Thanh learned a great deal and was penning patriotic essays at Qui's direction and was helping to serve quests that came to lecture on various subjects. Soon thereafter Qui closed the school forcing Thanh to return to schooling by his father. Thanh's education was not limited to the classroom; he also learned how to become a blacksmith and a bird hunter. Is Father's workshop became a gathering spot for stories of invasion and protection of their homeland. By this point in time Nguyen Tat Thanh was starting to feel an intense patriotism. He often attended funeral services with his parents for martyrs killed during the war of resistance with the French. .
             In 1911 Thanh began employment as a cook on a French steamship named La Touché Treville, and later worked in London and Paris. Following World War I Nguyen Tat Thanh began using the pseudonym Nguyen Ai Quoc, meaning Nguyen the Patriot. Phan Chu Trinh, a famous patriot, chose this nickname second well known after Ho Chi Minh. Thanh dropped the name Nguyen Ai Quoc after betraying Phan Boi Chau's whereabouts to the French authorities for $10,000. Phan Boi Chau was the most well known Vietnamese activist at the early half of 1900's who peacefully struggled for independence of Vietnam from French rule. As Nguyen the Patriot he was a founding member of the French Communist party and often engaged in radical activities. He attended training sessions in Moscow and was sent to China in 1924. It was here that he participated in the organization of a revolutionary movement among Vietnamese exiles.


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1. Nationalism and Resistance of the Viet Minh and Ho Chi Minh

Through the bitter hardships endured by the Vietnamese due to French colonialism, one could not foresee the development of Vietnamese nationalism and resistance. However, this became a reality because of Ho Chi Minh and The Viet Minh's nationalistic ways and determination to overthrow the French and gain Vietnam's independence. At the end of the Second World War, France lied in ruins and Vietnam was left with ... was helpful as it showed the peasants how bad the consequences of colonialism could be and how important it was to support, even assist, in the resistance movement proposed by Ho Chi...

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2. Biography of Ho Chi Minh

... , 1890 in Hoang Tru Village, in the central of Vietnam. He was the youngest of a three children family in which his father was a public servant attached to the imperial court. Ho Chi Minh's father, Nguyen Sinh Sac, was removed from his job because of criticizing the French colonial power. At ten years of age, his mother died. Despite his family tragedies, he had ... capacity go to a French Lycee in Hue and later turned into a tutor. These gave him a strong volition when he was young (Kallie Szczepanski 2015). According to Columbia.edu, "When Ho Chi Minh was born in 1890, Vietnam was unde...

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3. Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh

... with the President to discuss the oppressive French colonial rule in Vietnam. However, Wilson had little interest in removing the French colonial rule in Vietnam and turned Ho away. Although Ho Chi Minh was ignored, he still diligently worked towards a new generation of Vietnamese Nationalism, while many westerners criticized his movement as aligning more towards one with communist motives. ... Following the Ho's founding of the Indochinese Communist Party, which held both nationalist and communist motives, Ho Chi Minh was often criticized by the ICP for not being radical enough for the ...

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4. The Leadership of Ho Chi Minh

... nationalist through thick and thin, and seized the opportunity to bring his country, Vietnam, freedom at once. Ho Chi Minh nationalistic views for Vietnam and for the Viet Minh were not ready for action. Ho's nationalism came in effect when he announced the Democratic Republic of Vietnam which lead to war with France because ... the development for his country, but it was always his country." Here it shows that Ho Chi Minh was not one or the other, but he was both. In the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, Ho Chi Minh brings a very nationalistic to Hanoi. He says "they have set up ...

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5. Ho Chi Minh- Nationalist or Communist?

... the Vietnamese Nationalist Party was suppressed in 1930, leading the Nationalists to believe that elements of communism needed to be introduced into their ideology to ensure victory over the French. Ho Chi Minh was a member of varying communist groups, founded the French Communist party in 1920 and was notably a key player in the Communist Party of Vietnam, which has elements of ... national people's democratic revolution, develop it into a socialist revolution and build socialism bypassing the stage of capitalist development" (1998). Minh wrote in the early 1920's, "Only in socialism an...

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6. My Life in Vietnam and California

... close proximity to one another, and the popular width of a house is about 3.5m to 4.5m. There are many different sizes of houses along many tiny alleys in Ho Chi Minh city. The master planning of Ho chi Minh City is not organized accordingly. In contrast, houses in Orange County are the conformity. Most single houses in Orange County are much wider than the houses in ... between two places is construction materials. Because Orange County belongs to California State where earthquakes occur commonly, the construction materials are lightweight and made of lumber. The houses in Ho Chi Minh c...

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7. Decolinization of Burma and Vietnam

... the " first non-French regime in more than eighty years".18 Since the United States had supported the Viet Minh during the war, Ho Chi Minh wrote letters asking for support to the current President Harry Truman which went unanswered for various reasons. The August Revolution enacted ... not yet ready to give up their valuable empire. They did not acknowledge the government of Ho Chi Minh. Ho patiently tried to negotiate with the French over their independence which the French ultimately refused. Ho Chi Minh was not going to go down without a fight. Eventually, the talks of independence f...

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8. The Vietnam War

... in Europe, but it failed in Eastern Europe. Now the United States had to look at the issues of containment in Asia. The peoples of Vietnam, led by the revolutionary Ho Chi Minh, wanted national independence with the vigor of communism from the Soviet Union and China. However, Vietnam was divided into two hostile regimes, the Vietminh in the north and the ... achieve liberation from the French. However, Truman didn't respond to aid Ho Chi Minh, because the United States didn't want to make France outraged. After Truman refused to assist Ho Chi Minh, Ho found support from China and the So...

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9. Australia at Vietnam war

... , but a resultant uprising erupted in November and was swiftly put down by Giap's army with 6,000 being killed or relocated. Even so, Ho Chi Minh had widespread support, even arming the ethnic minorities in North Vietnam including the Montagnard tribes. In the south, emperor Bao Dai who, after collaboration ... with the Japanese to 1945 and a brief period as "adviser" to Ho Chi Minh's government in Hanoi before fleeing the country in 1946, had been installed as a French puppet on his return in 1949, sought the services of ... voluntary exile before World War II. Fiercely independent, and...

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