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Ho Chi Minh , Birth Control , and Reagan

1964 - 1989

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1964 - 1989 Ho Chi Minh

Ho Chi Minh formal name is Nguyen Sinh Cung "Ho Chi Minh is arguably the greatest leader in Vietnamese history . He combined the achievements of Tran Hung Dao , who vanquished the Mongols in 1288 (Blumberg 121 . Ho Chi Minh became the head of the Vietnamese Nationalists who fought against a variety of countries including France , China , Japan , and American . Through these military battles Ho Chi Minh was able to make

br Vietnam independent and unified

Ho Chi Minh was born into a working class family that had strong nationalist background . He left Vietnam briefly in 1911 working abroad as a cook on a ship . He traveled to Africa , Europe , and the United States . In 1920 he became involved with the French Communist Party . He also spent a great deal of time in Moscow . In Russia he learned revolutionary tactics which he would later employ in Vietnam

Comintern in the mid 1920s sent him to China as an agent of the communist party . For this mission he had to changed his name to Ho Chi Minh . Later in life that is what people would refer to him as . In 1929 he was sentenced to death in French for his rebel activities . He then escape to England and was imprisoned there for the same reasons . In the early 1940s he was arrested in China because they believed him to be a French spy . Ho Chi Minh escaped again and found a home in Southern China . It was in South China that Ho Chi Minh began to be build Viet Minh or Vietnam as it would later be called . In World War II Ho Chi Mich also worked for the United States government as a CIA agent

In World War II Japan took control of Vietnam . Ho Chi Minh organized the Vietnamese to fight against Japan however in 1945 , Japan granted Vietnam their independence and making Emperor Bao Dai its leader . After the Japanese were defeated , Bao Dai stepped down and Ho Chi Minh was again in charge . He used communism to make Vietnam free . He continued to struggle with the French over Vietnam . Ho Chi Minh fought the French for 8 years and defeated them in 1954 . This was when Vietnam was split into North and South (Blumberg 301

Between the years 1954 and 1969 Vietnam was fully under the control of Ho Chi Minh who governed by communism . He and Vietnamese were extremely successful in the fight against the United States . The Vietnam War occurred between the 1954 and 1975 . In 1960 the Viet Cong of the south were attacking the rural areas . During the mid-1960s , as the United States embarked on a major ground war in Southeast Asia , President Lyndon Johnson and his senior national security advisors confronted a major challenge . Since 1959 , the military forces of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV ) had been employing the Truong Son Route - better known as...