Historical Context
Which of the three parts of Vietnam is located in the South?
Tonkin, Annam or CochinChina
CochinChina
Who taught Ho Chi Minh the following: It is was necessary to understand the enemy in order to defeat the enemy
His Father
Ho Chi Minh can be described as a comintern. What is a comintern?
Communist International
Ho Chi Minh was the president of where?
The Democratic Republic of Vietnam DRV
In what year was Ho Chi Minh born?
1890
Who allowed the Japanese to occupy Vietnam during WWII?
The Vichy French
Describe Ho Chi Minh's first involvement in politics
Ho Chi Minh worked as an interpreter for angry peasants, who were protesting against high taxes from the French
What was the offical name of the Vietnminh and were was it created?
League for the independence of Vietnam
was to struggle for national liberation from the French and Japanese
From where did Ho Chi Minh quote in his speech made in declaring the independence of Vietnam?
US Declaration of Independence
In what year was the ICP (Indochinese Communist party) formed?
1930
Nationalism became intwined with what other ideology in Asia
Communism
Which leader first influenced Ho Chi Minh's education on revolutions?
Vladimir Lenin
What did Ho Chi Minh establish in 1925 China?
The Vietnamese revolutionary youth league
Which two countries favoured a compromise and division of Vietnam in the Geneva Conference?
Russia and China
Did Ho Chi Minh die before or after the Vietnam war ended? and What year did he die in?
Ho Chi Minh died before the end of the war, he died in 1969
Initial US policy to stop communism
Policy of Containment
What two things did Ho Chi Minh study in Soviet Russia?
Marxist theory of historical materialism and the communist interpretation of the 1917 Russian Revolution
Why was the ICP called the ICP and the the Vietnamese Communist party?
This gave the idea of possibly working for an only nationalist agenda for simply Vietnamese people. The Moscow Cominterns wanted ICP as it was broader to the area and would be more wide scope for the world revolution of communism
Ho Chi Minh can be described as a nationalist and a communist, but what other ideology had an impact on him?
Confucianism
The First Indochinese war
1946-1954
The Second Indochinese War was apart of a greater conflict known as....... Who was it mainly between?
The Cold War. USA and USSR
Ho Chi Minh became a founding member of which country's communist party in 1921?
In Ho Chi Minh's pamphlet 'the road to revolution' he outlines that there are two stages to a revolution. What are these two stages?
1. Nationalist revolution
2. communist World Revolution
What two things did Ho Chi Minh want for Vietnam during the 2nd indochinese war?
Peace and unification
In what year does Ho Chi Minh declare Vietnamese independence ?
1945