Ho Chi Minh

[ hoh chee min ]

noun

1. 1890?–1969, North Vietnamese political leader: president of North Vietnam 1954–69.

Ho Chi Minh

/ ˈhəʊ ˈtʃiː ˈmɪn /

noun

1. Ho Chi Minh18901969MVietnamesePOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: nationalist leader original name Nguyen That Tan. 1890–1969, Vietnamese statesman; president of North Vietnam (1954–69). He headed the Vietminh (1941), which won independence for Vietnam from the French (1954)

Ho Chi Minh

1. A Vietnamese revolutionary leader of the twentieth century. Ho Chi Minh led the communists of Vietnam in their efforts to drive out the forces of Japan in the 1940s ( see World War II ), France in the 1950s ( see Dienbienphu ), and the United States in the 1960s ( see Vietnam War ). He died in 1969.

Notes

Saigon , the former capital of South Vietnam, was renamed Ho Chi Minh City after the communist victory there.

Example Sentences

Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi was a communist dictator, for sure, but had a genuine following.

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But, he continued, they had read Mao, and Ho Chi Minh, and Giap, and Che.

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In the 1960s, many in the New Left excused Fidel Castro and Ho Chi Minh because they battled American hegemony.

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Five screens document the five staffers involved in the sober discussions, which took place in Ho Chi Minh City itself.

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In addition to Bangkok and the Thai beach resort of Pattaya, I went to Ho Chi Minh City, Danang, Na Trang, and Haiphong.

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