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Ho became a founding member of the newly created French Communist Party.
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Ho was trained as an agent of the Comintern*. He studied the thought of Marx and Lenin as well as organizational and revolutionary techniques.
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In Hong Kong, Ho founded the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP), later renamed the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP).
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Ho traveled to China to serve as a military advisor for the Chinese Communist Party after the Japanese invasion of China in 1937. The Chinese Communist Party and the Guomindang, previously entangled in civil war, had agreed to an armistice until the Japanese were defeated.
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Ho was arrested by Nationalist Party (Guomindang) authorities in China and briefly imprisoned. Ho began to use the pseudonym Ho Chi Minh (“He who enlightens”) by which he is now remembered.
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The Vietnamese Workers Party (Lao Dong), the successor to the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP), was founded.
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Ho Chi Minh died on September 2 at the age of seventy-nine.
