Ho Chi Minh

Although he was unable to obtain consideration at Versailles the failure further radicalized Nguyễn while also making him a national hero of the anti-colonial movement at home in Vietnam. President Woodrow Wilson to help remove the French from Vietnam and replace them with a new nationalist government. In Ho Chi Minh: A Life William Duiker repudiated this hypothesis.

He was a key figure in the foundation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 as well as the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the Việt Cộng (NLF or VC) during the Vietnam War. After the war Saigon capital of the Republic of Vietnam was renamed Hồ Chí Minh City. He officially stepped down from power in 1955 due to health problems but remained a highly visible figurehead and inspiration for those Vietnamese fighting for his cause—a united communist Vietnam—until his death.