Ho ChI Minh/Domino Theory

*Ho Chi Minh was born in Nguyen Sinh Cung in Central Vietnam on May 19, 1890
*He studied at the Lycee Quoc-Hoc school
*In 1912 he moved to Grance where he became active in socialist politics. He visited United States during the WWI.
*In 1920 he became a founding member of the French Communist Party.
*He became famous because of his petition to the Versailles Peace Conference demanding Vietnam´s Independence.
*He went to Moscow and met Lenin, then to China to work in the Soviet mission with Chiang Kai-Shek´s government.
*He returned to Vietnam and founded the Viet Minh, the League for Independence of Vietnam.
*While he was in Europe, he recruited the Vietnamese exile community.
*He served as a guerilla training instructor in Central China.
*In May 1940, most Vietnam was under Japanese control and he made out a meeting to form the League for the Independence of Vietnam, he spent a lot of time searching for allies and support for the war that was about to come.
*In 1945, Viet Minh´s forces launched an insurrection to seize power throughout Vietnam.
*Democratic Republic of Vietnam was created with Ho Chi Minh as president.
*He tried to search a settlement with France and he managed to reduce the distrust of rival nationalist leaders and reached agreement on a coalition cabinet.
*In 1946, the alliance between the Viet Minh and the nationalists broke down and in December war broke out.
*The war ended in 1954 with the Vietnamese victory, he made France sign another agreement and Vietnam divided in two: the communist north and the noncommunist south.
*He died on September 3, 1969.

More info at: http://www.wilsoncenter.org/coldwarfiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=people.details&thisunit=0&peopleid=12