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Who was Ho Chi Minh? What was his contribution to Vietnam?

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(i) Ho Chi Minh was a communist. (ii) In 1930, he brought together competing nationalist groups to establish the Vietnamese Communist Party. (iii) He was inspired by the militant demonstration of the European Communist Parties.                                                    (iv) In 1940, Japanese occupied Vietnam. So now they had to fight against the Japanese as well as French. (v) A league called 'Viet Minh' was formed to fight the Japanese and they got back Hanoi in 1945. (vi) The Democratic Republic of Vietnam was formed and Ho Chi Minh became its Chairman.