Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam
The Establishment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam In august of 1945 Japan surrendered. ... Starvation was attacking the people of Vietnam. ... With the Viet Minh slogan “break open the rice stores to avert famine” a general uprising had erupted. On the 10th of August Ho Chi Minh called for an uprising and on the 17th Giap and his Viet Minh troops entered Hanoi. Bao Dai who was the puppet emperor of the Japanese abdicated and asked the Viet Minh to form a Government in Cochinchina. Within ten days of the Japanese surrendering, the Viet Minh gained control of Vietnam. 1945 September 2nd – Ho Chi Minh proclaimed the independence of a new state known as DRV or Democratic Republic of Vietnam. ... ’ Ho Chi Minh strongly believed that the time for Vietnams independence was upon us and undoubtedly without him, such an outcome would not have occurred.