DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Hồ Chí Minh, born Nguyễn Sinh Cung and also known as Nguyễn Ái Quốc (19 May 1890 -- 2 September 1969) was a Vietnamese Marxist revolutionary leader who was prime minister (1945--1955) and president (1945--1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). He formed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and led the Việt cộng during the Vietnam War until his death. Hồ led the Việt Minh independence movement from 1941 onward, establishing the communist-governed Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and defeating the French Union in 1954 at Điện Biên Phủ. He lost political power in 1955—when he was replaced as Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam—but remained the highly visible figurehead of North Vietnam—through the Presidency—until his death. The capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, after the Fall of Saigon, was renamed Hồ Chí Minh City in honor of the communist leader. The 1954 Geneva Accords, concluded between France and the Việt Minh, provided that communist forces regroup in the North and non-communist forces regroup in the South. Hồ's Democratic Republic of Vietnam relocated to Hanoi and became the government of North Vietnam, a communist-led single party state. The Geneva accords also provided for a national election to reunify the country in 1956, but this provision was rejected by South Vietnam's government and the United States. The US committed itself to oppose communism in Asia beginning in ... Теги:hochiminhAnnamAnnamitearmyAsiaBeijingBrocheuxcadresCantonCAOMChiangKai-shekChinaChineseCommunistsChinhCochinchinacolonialCominternCommunistPartycomradesconflictCongressd'IndochineDienBienPhudifficultDongDuongfightfinallyfindfirstfivefranc¸aiseFranceFrenchGuangxiguerreHanoiHo'sHoangHongKongHu´eIndochina
