Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh

biographical name \ˈhō-ˈchē-ˈmin, -ˈshē-\

Definition of HO CHI MINH

1890–1969 originally Nguyen That Thanh pres. of North Vietnam (1945–69)

Rhymes with HO CHI MINH

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Ho Chi Minh

biographical name    (Concise Encyclopedia)

Ho Chi Minh, 1968.—Marc Riboud/Magnum

(born May 19, 1890, Hoang Tru, Viet.—died Sept. 2, 1969, Hanoi) President (1945–69) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). Son of a poor scholar, he was brought up in a rural village. In 1911 he found work on a French steamer and traveled the world, then spent six years in France, where he became a socialist. In 1923 he went to the Soviet Union; the next year he went to China, where he started organizing exiled Vietnamese. He founded the Indochina Communist Party in 1930 and its successor, the Viet Minh, in 1941. In 1945 Japan overran Indochina, overthrowing its French colonial rulers; when the Japanese surrendered to the Allies six months later, Ho and his Viet Minh forces seized the opportunity, occupied Hanoi, and proclaimed Vietnamese independence. France refused to relinquish its former colony, and the First Indochina War broke out in 1946. Ho's forces defeated the French in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu, after which the country was partitioned into North and South Vietnam. Ho, who ruled in the north, was soon embroiled with the U.S.-backed regime of Ngo Dinh Diem in the south in what became known as the Vietnam War; North Vietnamese forces prevailed over the south six years after Ho's death.

Variants of HO CHI MINH

Ho Chi Minh orig. Nguyen Sinh Cung