1. + ~Ho Chi Minh~

2. + 1890 May 19 ~Ho Chi Minh was born

3. + 1895 He grew up in Kim Lien Village in Vietnam

4. + 1900 At the age of ten he had a name change from Nguyen Tat Thanh to Ho Chi Minh

5. + 1912 Ho lived in the Harlem part of New York and in Boston. There he worked as a baker at the Parker House Hotel.

6. + 1913 He lived in different parts of London, such as West Ealing, west London, and later in CrouchEnd, Hornsey, north London.

7. + 1917 Ho told people that he arrived in Paris from London, but Frenchpolice only have documents in June of 1919.

8. + 1917-1918 He worked in some small jobs and claimed that he was working for a wealthy family in Brooklyn. Also, it was said that while he was in the U.S. he made a contract with Korean nationalists, an experience that developed his political outlook.

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10. + 1918 Ho petitioned President Woodrow Wilson for help to remove the French from Vietnam and to replace it with a new, nationalist government, but the request was ignored.

11. + 1924 Ho traveled to Guangzhou, China to act as an interpreter for a Soviet mission sent to assist Chiang Kai-shek, but while in the region Ho contacts Vietnamese exiles.

12. + 1925 Ho organized ‘Youth Education Classes’ and he sometimes gave lectures at the Whampoa Military Academy on the revolutionary. He stayed in Hong Kong as a representative of the Communist International.

13. + 1928 He stayed in the Thai village of Nachok. He spent some years as a Buddhist Monk in Northeast Thailand.

14. + 1931 June ~Ho was arrested and incarcerated by British police until his release in 1933. Then he went back to the Soviet Union, and there he had to recover from tuberculosis.

15. + 1938 Returned to China and served as an adviser with Chinese Communist armed forces.

16. + 1943 Ho was released and he again returned to Vietnam. He was treated for malaria and dysentery by American OSS doctors.

17. + 1945 Then Viet Minh killed members of the rival groups, such as the leader of the Constitutional Party, the head of the Party for Independence, and Ngo Dinh Diem’s brother, Ngo Dnh Khoi.

18. + 1945 Ho became chairman of the Provisional Government. September ~Ho arranged for the Communist Party to be dissolved and to hold an election to yield a coalition government. September 2 ~Ho reads the Declaration of Independence of Vietnam under the name of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

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20. + 1946 He returned to Vietnam in 1941 to lead the Viet Minh independence movement, which was successful.

21. + 1946 March 6 ~He signs an agreement with France

22. + 1950 February ~Ho meets with Stalin and Mao in Moscow after the Soviets recognized his government.

23. + 1954 After Ho escalated a fight with France then in 1954, France was forced to give up Indochina

24. + 1955 Ho becomes president of Vietnam.

25. + 1969 Santiago Alvarez makes a documentary film ‘Seventy-Nine Spring Times of Ho Chi Minh.’

26. + 1969 September 2 ~Ho Chi Minh died in the morning at his home in Hanoi at 9 from heart failure.

27. + 1975 He was considered to be a murderer and a traitor who ruined Vietnam by starting a war. Saigon is renamed as ‘Ho Chi Minh City’