Viet Minh: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As	Viet Nam Doc Lap Dong Minh Hoi • League for the Independence of Vietnam
Date	May 1941 - 1951
Areas Of Involvement	national liberation movement
Related People	Ho Chi Minh • Vo Nguyen Giap • Le Duc Tho

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Ho Chi Minh, president of North Vietnam, with a long white beard and mustache, wearing a dark jacket, seated and looking to the side in a 1957 black-and-white portrait.

Map of Vietnam from 1954 to 1976, showing North Vietnam in the north and South Vietnam in the south, separated by a demilitarized zone at the 17th parallel. The map highlights the Ho Chi Minh Trail running from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam, with major cities such as Hanoi in the north and Saigon in the south, as well as neighboring countries and bodies of water.

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Watch the Viet Cong's guerrilla communist forces move down the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos and Cambodia

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U.S. trooops of the 7th. and 9th. divisions wade through marshland during a joint operation on South Vietnam's Mekong Delta, April 1967.

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