August Revolution
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The August Revolution, at the time known as the General Uprising, was a revolution led by the Viet Minh against the Japanese occupation of Vietnam and the Empire of Vietnam from 16 to 30 August 1945.
Occupation of the Tonkin Palace, Hanoi, 19 August 1945
Thanh Hoá in 1932
Hanoi after 9 March 1945
Meeting at the Grand Opera in Hanoi on 17 August 1945.
Ho Chi Minh
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Hồ Chí Minh, colloquially known as Uncle Ho among other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary and statesman who founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945. He served
August Revolution
…with minimal bloodshed. The Nguyen dynasty with its government of Tran Trong Kim collapsed when emperor Bao Dai abdicated in Hue on 30 August 1945. Ho Chi Minh, head of the National Liberation Committee of Vietnam, subsequently declared the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) on 2 September…
Portrait, c. 1946
Commemorative plaque in Haymarket in London
1920 security report by the French Indochinese government on Nguyễn Tất Thành listing his aliases, places of residence, his father's occupation, as well as other information.
Hồ Chí Minh, 1921, using the pseudonym Nguyễn Ái Quốc, attending a Communist congress in Marseille, France.