Ho Chi Minh Profile

1. Born 1890

2. French Colony - Rubber

Platntation ,

3. 90% of Vietnamese were peasants.

4. Why Vietnam? - Human work

force was cheap

5. Frustrated because of the lost of

dignity / opportunities of his fellow
countrymen.
1930- Set up the Indo China Communist
Party

Key Feature : able to influence people

*** Organization skills***

1939 - WW2 French - Germany

1945- HCM declared indepedence from the

FRENCH
What Ho did.
French Lost most of the Indochina but - Became a
HOLD Vietnam message runner
- French and Vietnam made some for the
agreements Nationalist
HCM -Organized another plan on guierrella
underground
war. movement.
Translated
peasant
1947- Went back up to the mountain for
another war
1954- Climax of war ( 55 days) and won
Indepedence

Capitalism
needs cheap
labour. The
reason why
colonised people
are exploited is
because this
keeps the cost of
production low!
By exploiting
foreign workers
 The power of people can move
mountains and it can destroy
enemy

Fall of Indochina 1945

INDEPENDENCE Day of Vietnam -
France
-America Feared with the rise of
Communism

- July 1954 North / Sout Vietnam was

divided
- (Two years of Ceasefire)
- Communism vs Republic What I did

Formed the ICP to

spread communism!

Trained Comintern
agents in the Soviet
Union!

Founded the VietMinh

to achieved
independence for
Vietnam!
DA NANG 1965
- 1965 - Landing of Da nang to teach North
Vietnam
US troops

- HCM Feared America .

This period of my life
was particularly
frustrating! I had
War tactics : Suprise attack and get out declared an
quickly independent Vietnam
only to see the Great
Powers allow France to
Tunnels - Booby traps return and divide my
beloved nation! Despite
my determined
negotiations I was
forced to prepare an
army to defend the
Democratic Republic
and ultimately unite
Vietnam
- Agent Orange (Subic Clark)
1969: Ho Chi Minh Died
 1973 - 50,000 U.S. Troops pulled
out

1975 - INDEPENDENCE

TOTAL WAR CASUALTIES - 1978

estimated

1,353,000 total deaths in North and

South Vietnam during the period
19651974
 Thank you
Xin Cam on

Prepared by: Frank

Harris Krueger