ho chi minh

     

Early in the 20th century, he took one of many pseudonyms, Nguyen Ai Quoc, or "Nguyen the Patriot"

Trivia about ho chi minh

  • In February 1967 this Asian leader said his people would "never agree to negotiate under the threat of bombing"
  • When this man died in 1969, Ton Duc Thang, his vice-president, became president of North Vietnam
  • In 1946 the Communist government of Vietnam began issuing coins with a depiction of this man
  • President of North Vietnam for 24 years, his mausoleum in Hanoi is a national shrine
  • From 1954 to 1969 he was president of North Vietnam
  • During WWI this future president of Vietnam worked at the Carlton Hotel in London
  • In the 1920s this N. Vietnamese leader worked as an assistant chef under the great Escoffier
  • Hanoi, where this man died in 1969, has a museum devoted to him
  • On Feb. 3, 1930 I presided over the founding of the Vietnamese Communist Party
  • In December 1946 he attacked the French at Tonkin, beginning a war that ended 8 years later
  • His glass sarcophagus is displayed inside a monumental edifice found on Ba Dinh Square in Hanoi
  • World leader who was the subject of David Halberstam's 1971 book "Ho"
  • During WWII a Vietnamese leader born Nguyen Sinh Cung began using this name meaning "bringer of light"
  • The first president of North Vietnam
  • He helped found the French Communist Party, as well as the Vietnamese one
  • Foreign president seen here, a trail used in the '60s was named for him
  • Under the name Nguyen Ai Quoc, he petitioned the Allies for Vietnamese self-determination in Paris in 1917
  • He drove out the Colonialists
  • Nguyen Tat Thanh began using this alias around 1941 when he founded the Viet Minh
  • In May 1941 he & his comrades organized the League for the Independence of Vietnam
  • In 1945 a U.S. unit saved the life of this Vietnamese guerrilla leader then helping the Allied cause
  • Soon after WWII, he wrote to Harry Truman asking for U.S. help in Vietnam's struggle against French rule
  • Most of Vietnam's dong currency features the smiling face of this Communist dictator of the 1950s & '60s
  • He left Vietnam for Europe in 1911 & was a founding member of the French Communist Party