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Birth
Hồ Chí Minh was born on May 19, 1890 in Hanoi the capital of Vietnam he was born as Nguyễn Sinh Cung -
Start in Politics
From 1919 to 1923 Ho began to show an interest in politics while living in France, influenced by his friend and comrade from the Socialist Party of France Marcel Cachin. In Paris he joined the Groupe des Patriotes Annamites (The Group of Vietnamese Patriots). Little by little he added the ideology of Marxism to his political thought: he joined the Socialist Party and, later, the Communist Party.He also participated in the founding congress of the latter party in December 1920 -
Time in the Soviet Union
Later he moved to Moscow in 1923, where he participated in several congresses of the Communist International. He later moved to China as a translator and assistant to Mikhail Grusenberg Borodin, an adviser to the Kuomintang on its relations with the Communist Party of China. -
Back to Asia
On the night of April 3, 1927, when Chiang Kai-shek met the communists with a huge slaughter, Hồ Chí Minh escape and started organizing the revolution in Siam (actual Thailand) and in China, going from jail after jail, from torture to torture, promoting strikes, riots and armed uprisings. So Hồ Chí Minh founded the Communist Party of Vietnam, in Hong Kong. In 1930 in Vietnam Japan substitute the domination of France with 50,000 men. -
Japanese Occupation
He fought in the guerrilla movement during the five years of Japanese occupation. To free the country from the new invasion, he founded the Việt Nam Ðộc Lập Ðồng Minh Hội, better known as the Viet Minh, or Front for the Liberation of Vietnam. He also creates a guerrilla army led by Võ Nguyên Giáp, one of the most prestigious revolutionary generals in the world. -
Fundation Republic of Vietnam
The Viet Minh organized the general insurrection, achieved national independence (on September 2, 1945, declared in Hanoi) and founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, a communist state. -
War with France
In 1946 the French returned and a new war broke out that lasted for nine years. On November 24, 1946, the French bombed Haiphong, with more than 6,000 fatalities. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict fought between 1953 and 1975 to reunify Vietnam under a communist government. This war pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam, known as the Viet Cong, backed by China and the Soviet Union, against the government of South Vietnam and its main ally, the United States and other nations. It is estimated that between 966,000 and 3,010,000 Vietnamese died in total. It was one of the most important wars of the Cold War. -
President
After the battle of Điện Biên Phủ (on May 7, 1954), the French are defeated and Hồ Chí Minh is proclaimed president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. At this time he introduced several agrarian reforms that were accompanied by political repression. Between 10,000 and 15,000 people were executed during the agrarian reform campaign. -
Death
Hồ Chí Minh died during the morning of September 2, 1969, at his home in Hanoi due to cardiac arrest at the age of 79, due to tuberculosis. The Hồ Chí Minh Mausoleum is located in Ba Dinh Square in Hanoi, the capital of the country. Hồ died before the war against the Americans ended, so he could not see a unified communist Vietnam.