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Trace the significant role played by Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam’s struggle for freedom.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Liberation from Colonial Rule

Ho Chi Minh's career spans virtually the entire arc of Vietnam's twentieth-century freedom struggle, from a young petitioner at Versailles to the symbolic head of state during the war against the United States.

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  • Early Radicalisation in Paris and the Comintern Years (1911–1930)
  • Organising the Viet Minh and the August Revolution (1930–1945)
  • Leading the Resistance Against France to Dien Bien Phu (1945–1954)
  • Symbolic and Strategic Leadership Against the United States (1954–1969)

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