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French Comunnist Party
Ho became a founding member of the newly created French Communist Party. -
Russia
Ho was trained as an agent of the Comintern*. He studied the thought of Marx and Lenin as well as organizational and revolutionary techniques. -
VCP / ICP
In Hong Kong, Ho founded the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP), later renamed the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP). -
Chinese Military
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. -
Arrested
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. -
ICP
The Vietnamese Workers Party (Lao Dong), the successor to the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP), was founded. -
Death
Ho Chi Minh died on September 2 at the age of seventy-nine.
