WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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He led the drive to establish communism in Vietnam
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He worked with the USSR to get rid of Chinese influence in Vietnam
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He opposed Mao Zedong’s philosophy
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He unified Korea under a communist government
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ho Chi Minh led a long and ultimately successful campaign to make Vietnam independent. He was president of North Vietnam from 1945 to 1969, and he was one of the most influential communist leaders of the 20th century. His seminal role is reflected in the fact that Vietnam’s largest city is named for him.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ho Chi Minh first emerged as an outspoken voice for Vietnamese independence while living as a young man in France during World War I. Inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution, he joined the Communist Party and traveled to the Soviet Union.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ho Chi Minh Thought emphasizes a gradual transition to socialism. Similar to Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, it places emphasis on the role of the development of the productive forces.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ho Chi Minh became a communist in the 1920s and launched a revolution back home in the 1940s after the Japanese occupied French Indochina during World War II.
Detailed explanation-5: -Ho wanted the ideas of liberty and independence that he learned from the US and France for his own people in Vietnam. The Western powers, by ignoring his claims and upholding the colonial system denying self-determination to the Vietnamese people, deeply alienated and disillusioned Ho Chi Minh.