Ho Chi-Minh Biography and Timeline

Birth of Ho Chi Minh

Birth of Ho Chi Minh

Conference of Versailles

Petitions Woodrow Wilson at the Peace Conference for the independence of Vietnam

Role range: 1914-1918

French Communist Party

Appointed Member of French Communist Party

Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League

After the 5th Congress of the Communist International in Moscow, Nguyen Ai Quoc (Ho Chi-Minh) left for Guangzhou as an interpreter of Mikhail Borodin (the alias of Mikhail Gruzenberg). With a Chinese pseudonym Ly Thuy , he was in fact mandated to promote communist movements in Indochina as well as in the rest of Southeast Asia

Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League

During 1925-1927, the Guangzhou headquarters operated as the Central Committee and the directing centre for their underground revolutionary movements in Vietnam.

Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League

Founds the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League, considered as the first truly Marxist organization in Indochina and the beginning of Vietnamese Communism.

Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League

Preparing the prominent leadership for the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Vietnamese Revolution.

Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League

With the support of Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomingtang Left, during the period of 1925-1927, the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League managed to educate and train a considerable number of Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries.

League of Oppressed Peoples

The Road to Revolution (Duong kach menh), a training manual for the League s members, was a collection of Nguyen Ai Quoc s lecture notes for the training course. This pamphlet was published by the propaganda sector of the League of Oppressed Peoples in 1927

Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League

Many students from Cochinchina participated in the League, meeting up with their peers from Tonkin and Annam in Guangzhou

Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League

Recruitment into the League was at its peak, for young Vietnamese were extremely disaffected by the French authorities after the death of Phan Chu Trinh and the arrest of Nguyen An Ninh in March 1926.

Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League

The Road to Revolution (Duong kach menh), a training manual for the League s members, was a collection of Nguyen Ai Quoc s lecture notes for the training course.

Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League

This pamphlet was published by the propaganda sector of the League of Oppressed People's in 1927.

Communist Party of Indochina

In March 1929, some radical members of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth League form the first communist cell in French Indochina

Communist Party of Indochina

Following appeals for unity by Ho Chi-Minh, the Communist Party of Indochina united with the Communist Party of Annam and the Communist League of Indochina and founded the Communist Party of Vietnam

Communist Party of Vietnam

Following appeals for unity by Ho Chi-Minh, the Communist Party of Indochina united with the Communist Party of Annam and the Communist League of Indochina and founded the Communist Party of Vietnam

ICCP

The name is changed almost immediately to the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP), ostensibly to include revolutionaries from Kampuchea and Laos. Ho Chi Minh founds the Vietnamese Communist Party by unifying three smaller communist movements that had emerged in northern, central and southern Vietnam during the late 1920. Founds the Indo China Communist Party

Rebellion of Helps lead a Communist

Helps lead a Communist led peasant revolt

Arrest of Ho Chi-Minh

Imprisoned by the Chinese for 1 year. Arrested crossing the border into China to recruit support for the Vietminh

Vietminh Army

Forms the Vietminh & leads the independence movement as head of the Vietminh

Arrest of Ho Chi-Minh

Released by Chang Fa-kwei with when he forms part of a mutual alliance

Vietnam Revolutionary League

Appointed Head of the Vietnam Revolutionary League, a nationalist organisation

Vietnam Revolutionary League

Sets up by the Chinese as head of the Vietnam Revolutionary League

Conference of Potsdam

The British will take the south & Chinese nationalists the north of Vietnam. The Allied leaders divide Vietnam at the 16th parallel

NLC

Summons 60 comrades to Tran Ho to form the National Liberation Committee

President of Vietnam

Appointed President of the National Liberation Committee

NLC

Summons 60 comrades to Tran Ho to form the National Liberation Committee

Capture of Hanoi

The first Vietminh troops enter Hanoi

Independence of Vietnam

Enter Hanoi & declares independence. Arrives in a Vietminh dominated Hanoi

Abdication

The Emperor abdicate giving Ho Chi Minh the "mandate of heaven"

Constitution of Vietnam

The Emperor abdicate giving Ho Chi Minh the "mandate of heaven"

Constitution of Vietnam

Proclaims the independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam

Independence of Vietnam

Proclaims the independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam

Role range: 1946-1954

Independence of Vietnam

Japan surrenders to the Allies & Ho declares independence

Invasion of Vietnam

Chinese troops move down to the 16th parallel, as agreed with the Allies

Strike

In response to French violence in Saigon the Vietminh abandon their policy of pacifism

2 million Vietnamese die of famine in the North

2 million Vietnamese die of famine in the North because Japan orders more peanuts & jute

AMS

Dissolves the Indochinese Communist Party & forms the Association for Marxist Studies

Indochinese Communist Party

Dissolves the Indochinese Communist Party & forms the Association for Marxist Studies

Treaty of Sino-French

A Sino-French Treaty provides for the return of French troops from South East Asia

Role range: 1946-1954