THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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Beijing
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Danang
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Saigon
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnamese Thanh Pho Ho Chi Minh, formerly (until 1976) Saigon, largest city in Vietnam. It was the capital of the French protectorate of Cochinchina (1862–1954) and of South Vietnam (1954–75).
Detailed explanation-2: -Ho Chi Minh City (Former name Saigon)-The French nickname their dear city, “Pearl of the far East”. Chinese immigrants call it “Cho Lon”, meaning “Big market”. The Communist government renamed Saigon “Ho Chi Minh city” after the nationalistic revolutionary.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) unified South Vietnam in April 30, 1975 and Saigon was subsequently renamed Ho Chi Minh City in honour of Ho Chi Minh, one of the main founders of the Vietnamese Communist Party.
Detailed explanation-4: -In this book, they mentioned that “Sai” means firewood, “Gon” is the name of the kapokier (a type of plant) which were very popular in the area back then, and thus the term “Saigon” was chosen to name this city.
Detailed explanation-5: -Ho Chi Minh was born Nguyen Sinh Cung on May 19, 1890, in a village in central Vietnam (then part of French Indochina) in Nghe province to Hoang Thi Loan, his mother, and Nguyen Sinh Sac.