Ho Chi Minh

The Censorship of Ho Chi Minh and The Events in The Vietnam War The main thing we don’t like to think about or igeknowlenge as society around the world is violence, death and war. Most of the events that are remembered most of all in our world are the worst things to ever happen. However the wars are not fought for fun, men and women are fighting for justice and peace; things that are worth a fight to death for. Even when with these goals in mind, some individuals start or participate in the…

World War II when the Japanese “Occupied” Vietnam, welcome to the roots of the war. During World War Japan invaded and occupied Vietnam and was under French Administration since the 19th century, then a person named Ho Chi Minh was inspired by Chinese Soviets and began the Viet Minh to fight Japan and the…

Ho was born on May 19, 1890. As a young boy, he attended local Vietnamese and French schools. He later became a sailor aboard a French freighter. Ho traveled to the United States in 1913, and after working as a day restaurant in New York City for a year, Ho sailed to London and learned how to make pastries. Ho put together a statement for Allied leaders shortly after World War ended. The statement explained…

not covered in textbooks is how the Native Americans influenced the Europeans. This is important to understand because many of the modern things we do were derived from the Native Americans; however, the Europeans are credited for creating them. Ho Chi…

When the Japanese surrendered and left the country it was split between the Vietnam and the French. Eventually the leader of Vietnam’s democracy, Ho Chi Minh, declared that Vietnam was now its own independent country. This caused a war to erupt between the followers of Ho Chi Minh and the followers of the French. This conflict was known as the First Indochina War. After the French lost their high ground in this war, they were pushed out of the country. After the…

had an opportunity to take back Vietnam and create their own establishment of Government lead by Ho Chi Minh then after the war allies gave back South Vietnam to the French while North Vietnam was left in the hands of the non-communist Chinese, the Chinese treated the North Vietnam people badly and that support for Ho Chi Minh grew then in 1946 the Chinese left North Vietnam which left it to Ho Chi Minh and he took over it then in October 1946, the French claimed that they would take over North…

The Vietnam War (1954-1975) was a long-lasting conflict between the communists of North Vietnam and its ally, the Viet Cong against the government of South Vietnam and its ally, the United States. The war inaugurated in 1954, after Ho Chi Minh and his communist Viet Minh party continued against the backdrop of a bitter Cold War between two nations: the United States and the Soviet Union. However, the United States did not call in…

From 1945 to 1964 Vietnam was separated between the communists in the North and the colonialists in the South. Ho Chi Minh, leader of the communist forces in the North (Vietminh), was a Vietnamese nationalist who was prepared to do anything in order to earn his country’s independence. Many believed that Ho was an agent under the Soviet Union sent to Indochina in order to spread communism. In The Quiet American, an anti-war novel by Graham Greene, Thomas Fowler, a British Journalist, and Alden…

outside counties. The Soviet Union and China the biggest communist powers at the time backed the North Vietnam. In the beginning of the war under Stalin’s regime there was not much support from the Soviet side. Though soviets did consider the Viet Minh as the official leaders of Vietnam their overall support was not big. There were several reasons why Stalin did this. One reason was because Stalin did not want to get on bad terms with the west especially the United States. He was afraid that if…

and left, France wanted to regain control of Vietnam as they had control before WWII and before Japan was in Vietnam. Before this, Ho Chi Minh had organized Viet Minh or the League for the Independence of Vietnam. Immediatly after Japan left, Minh invaded northern Vietnam and declared it a Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The main issue France had with Ho Chi Minh was that he was pro-communist. France then, being afraid of communism due to WWII, began fighting for North Vietnam back. The…