As a result of the Geneva Conference on Indochina, Cambodia was able to bring about the withdrawal of the Viet Minh troops from its territory and to withstand any residual impingement upon its sovereignty by external powers.

* In Indochina the French government was facing the Viet Minh communist rebels and lost its Indochinese colonies during the First Indochina War in 1954 after the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.

General Zhang Fakui ( Chang Fa-kuei ), who based himself in Guangxi, established the Viet Nam Cach Menh Dong Minh Hoi meaning " Viet Nam Revolutionary League " in 1942, which was assisted by the VNQDD to serve the KMT's aims.

General Zhang shrewdly blocked the Communists of Vietnam, and Ho Chi Minh from entering the league, as his main goal was Chinese influence in Indo China.

Its leader was Son Ngoc Minh, and a third of its leadership consisted of members of the ICP.

While it was primarily a comical song about a Judge and his courtroom it is also notable for the political lyrics " I'm goin ' to Paris to stop this war " and " I had a chat with Ho Chi Minh " both social commentary references about wanting to go to the Paris Peace Accord negotiations to stop the war in Vietnam.

The CPV's claim to legitimacy was retained following the collapse of communism in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 by its commitment to the thoughts of Hồ Chí Minh, according to Sophie Quinn-Judge.

While some claim that Hồ Chí Minh Thought is used as a veil for the Party leadership since they, according to this version, have stopped believing in communism, contrary to this version, Hồ Chí Minh was an avid supporter of Vladimir Lenin and the dictatorship of the proletariat.

" According to the Party's statute, amended at the 9th National Congress on 22 April 2001, the CPV was " established and trained by President Hồ Chí Minh, has led the Vietnamese people to carry out successfully the August Revolution, establishing the Democratic Republic of Việt Nam, now the Socialist Republic of Việt Nam, to defeat foreign invaders, to abolish the colonial and feudalist regime, to liberate and reunify the country, and then carry out the cause of renovation and socialist construction and firmly defend national independence.

Compared to their forebears, the " skeptical generation " was much more capricious, willing to embrace more extreme socialist ideology ( such as Maoism ), and public heroes ( such as Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, and Che Guevara ), while living a looser and more promiscuous lifestyle.

Amid religious protests that garnered worldwide attention, Diệm lost the backing of his U. S. patrons and was assassinated, along with his brother, Ngô Đình Nhu by Nguyễn Văn Nhung, the aide of ARVN General Dương Văn Minh on 2 November 1963, during a coup d ' état that deposed his government.

Diệm attempted to travel to Huế to dissuade Bảo Đại from joining Hồ, but was arrested by the Việt Minh along the way and exiled to a highland village near the border.

Six months later, he was taken to meet Hồ in Hanoi, but refused to join the Việt Minh, assailing Hồ for the death of his brother, Khôi, who was reportedly buried alive by Việt Minh cadres.

Diệm was given a respite in November 1946 when clashes between the French and the Việt Minh escalated into full scale war, forcing the Việt Minh to divert their resources.

The Việt Minh was also estimated to have control over a third of the country.

During the period of war, rent collection, which hovered at around 50 – 70 %, was impossible in some parts of the country, or the Việt Minh had compelled landlords to seek safety in the city and confiscated their land, distributing it to the peasants.

Upon hearing that a coup d ' état was being designed by ARVN generals led by General Dương Văn Minh, and supported by the CIA, Lodge gave secret assurances to the generals that the U. S. would not interfere.

Upon learning of Diệm's ouster and assassination, Hồ Chí Minh reportedly stated: “ I can scarcely believe the Americans would be so stupid .” The North Vietnamese Politburo was more explicit :“ The consequences of the 1 November coup d ' état will be contrary to the calculations of the U. S. imperialists ... Diệm was one of the strongest individuals resisting the people and Communism.

Due to his recent Japanese associations, Hồ was able to persuade Bảo Đại to abdicate on 25 August 1945, handing power over to the Việt Minh — an event which greatly enhanced Hồ's legitimacy in the eyes of the Vietnamese people.

On the 2008 visit Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet returned similar comments as he lauded a group of Venezuelans who captured a US soldier during the Vietnam War in an unsuccessful bid to prevent the execution of a Vietnamese revolutionary.

The son of a wealthy landlord, Minh joined the French Army at the start of World War II, and was captured and tortured by the Imperial Japanese, who invaded and seized French Indochina.

In 1954, Minh was captured by the Việt Minh.

In 1971, Minh claimed that Thiệu had caused the deaths by hesitating and delaying the attack on Gia Long Palace, implying that if Diệm was captured there, junior officers could not have killed him while in a small group.

De Genouilly decided to sail south and captured the poorly defended city of Gia Định ( present-day Ho Chi Minh City ).

* Renaming cities and other places when captured, such as Ho Chi Minh City

In addition to captured documents ( a copy of Resolution 13, for example, was captured by early October ), observations of enemy logistical operations were also quite clear: in October the number of trucks observed heading south through Laos on the Hồ Chí Minh Trail jumped from the previous monthly average of 480 to 1, 116.

China supplied the Việt Minh guerrillas with food ( thousands of tons of rice ), money, medics, arms, ammunitions, artillery ( 24 guns were used at Dien Bien Phu ) and other military equipment including a large part of material captured from Chiang Kai-shek's National Revolutionary Army during the Chinese Civil War.

Colonel Edward Lansdale used bribery with CIA funds to split the Hòa Hảo and in 1956 General Dương Văn Minh crushed the Hòa Hảo and General Ba Cụt was captured and beheaded in public.

After fighting for 55 days, the besieged French garrison was overrun and all French central positions were captured by the Việt Minh.

After French forces left Indochina, the VPA and Viet Minh converted many captured MAT-49s to the Soviet 7. 62 mm Tokarev pistol cartridge, then available in large quantities from the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.

It was later adopted by many members of the Chinese Army which had captured Japanese equipment, and later, by the Viet Minh.

Its units experienced only light contact on the first day, but documents captured by 3 / 187th indicated that the 29th PAVN Regiment, nicknamed the " Pride of Ho Chi Minh " and a veteran of the 1968 Tet Offensive assault on Hue, was somewhere in the valley.

Two other natives of Thai Binh are the ones who finalized the two famous wars in Vietnam: Tạ Quốc Luật, who captured Christian de Castries and raised the victory flag in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu ( the First Indochina War ) and Bùi Quang Thận, who led a group of Northern tanks and entered the headquarters of South Vietnam's government to make president Dương Văn Minh unconditionally surrender ( the second Indochina War ).

They almost captured Ho Chi Minh, who slipped into a camouflaged hole at the last minute.

Victory Day ( Ngày Chiến thắng ), Reunification Day ( Ngày Thống nhất ), or Liberation Day ( Ngày Giải phóng ) is a public holiday in Vietnam that marks the occasion Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops captured Saigon ( now Ho Chi Minh City ) on April 30, 1975.

Karmen's documentary methods were both influential and controversial ; his renowned technical ability captured the emotion of war and the repetition of key shots and framings between film projects became a hallmark, but he would often blur the lines of Cinéma vérité by restaging key battles, including the lifting of the siege of Leningrad ( Ленинград в борьбе, 1942 ), the Viet Minh victory at the siege of Dien Bien Phu ( Вьетнам, 1955 ), and the 1956 landing in Cuba of militants led by Fidel Castro, re-enacted as a first person documentary.

At the siege of Dien Bien Phu he filmed the battle between the French Union forces and the Viet Minh but his reels were captured when he surrendered to the enemy.

After World War II, the Việt Minh opposed the re-occupation of Vietnam by France and later opposed South Vietnam and the United States in the Vietnam War.

The Việt Nam Ðộc Lập Ðồng Minh Hội is not to be confused with the Việt Nam Cách Mạng Ðồng Minh Hội ( League for the Vietnamese Revolution, abbreviated as Việt Cách ) which was founded by Nguyễn Hai Than and Hồ Ngoc Lam, and which later joined the Vietnamese National Coalition in 1946.

Hanoi was later reoccupied by the French and conflict between the Viet Minh and France broke out into the First Indochina War.

In 1926, he traveled to Guangzhou in southern China to attend a training course run by Nguyen Ai Quoc ( later to be known as Ho Chi Minh ), before being admitted as a member of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association, the predecessor of the Communist Party of Vietnam ( CPV ).

A week later, Minh was chosen by the legislature and became president on 28 April 1975.

Saigon fell two days later on 30 April, and Minh ordered the surrender to prevent bloody urban street fighting.

Ba Cụt was arrested by a patrol on 13 April 1956, and later executed, and his remaining forces were defeated by Minh.

Minh later messaged Taylor with a complaint about a perceived lack of support from Washington for a coup.

In the afternoon, Minh ordered his bodyguard, Nguyễn Văn Nhung, to arrest, and later execute, Colonel Lê Quang Tung, one of Diệm's closest and most faithful associates.

Đôn later reported that Minh had answered his question in a " haughty " tone.

Khánh later persuaded Minh to remain as a figurehead head of state.

" Some months later, Minh reportedly confided to an American source that " We had no alternative.

The 1954 Geneva Conference left Vietnam a divided nation, with Hồ Chí Minh's communist government ruling the North from Hanoi and Ngô Đình Diệm's regime, supported by the United States, ruling the South from Saigon ( later Hồ Chí Minh City ).

US Army sources have claimed that the human wave attack tactic was adapted by the Viet Minh, and later by the Viet Cong and the Vietnam People's Army during the Indochina Wars.

The Pathet Lao were the Laotian equivalent of North Vietnam's Vietnam People's Army, South Vietnam's Viet Minh and later Viet Cong, and Cambodia's Khmer Rouge.

In Bordiga's conception, Stalin, and later Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara etc.

A number of the 1940s issues were later overprinted and used by the Viet Minh

Three years later, Chey Chettha allowed the Vietnamese to establish a custom-house at Prey Nokor, near what is now Ho Chi Minh City ( until 1975, Saigon ).

Sihanouk was the only foreign head of state to attend the funeral of Ho Chi Minh, North Vietnam's deceased leader, in Hanoi three months later.

It was in the spring of that year that a young man born Nguyen Sinh Cung — then using the pseudonym Nguyễn Ái Quốc ( Nguyen the Patriot ) but best known today by a later party-name, Ho Chi Minh ( Ho the Enlightened One ) — established a Communist political organization called the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth Association ( Việt Nam Thanh Niên Kách Mệnh Hội — commonly: " Thanh Niên ").

The Soviet Union at first indirectly supported Vietnamese communists, but later directly supported Hồ Chí Minh.