President Ho Chi Minh
The founder and leader of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
SUMMARY OF WORK EXPERIENCE
- June 5, 1911: He left Nha Rong Port to seek a way to save the country.
- 1912-1917: Under the name Nguyen Tat Thanh, he traveled to many countries in Asia, Europe, America, and Africa, living among the working people.
- 1917: He returned to France from England and was active in the Vietnamese expatriate movement and the French workers' movement.
- 1919: Under the name Nguyen Ai Quoc, on behalf of patriotic Vietnamese in France, he sent a petition to the Versailles Conference demanding freedom for the Vietnamese people and also freedom for the people of other colonial countries.
- December 1920: Nguyen Ai Quoc attended the 18th Congress of the French Socialist Party and voted in favor of the Party joining the Third International (Communist International), becoming one of the founders of the French Communist Party.
- 1921: Participated in the founding of the Union of French Colonial Peoples
- 1922: He published the newspaper "Le Paria" (The Pariah).
- June 1923: Nguyen Ai Quoc traveled from France to the Soviet Union, where he worked at the Communist International.
- October 1923: At the First International Peasant Conference, Nguyen Ai Quoc was elected to the International Peasant Council and was the only representative of colonial peasants appointed to the Council's Presidium.
- June and July 1924: Attended the Fifth Congress of the Communist International, the Fourth Congress of the International Youth, and the Congress of the Red International of Trade Unions.
- November 1924: He arrived in Guangzhou (China) as a member of the Eastern Bureau of the Communist International and a member of the Presidium of the International Peasant Union.
- June 1925: He founded the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association, directly opened training classes for revolutionary cadres, and launched the weekly newspaper "Thanh Nien" (Youth), the first revolutionary newspaper in Vietnam, to propagate Marxism-Leninism in Vietnam and prepare for the establishment of the Communist Party of Vietnam. Nguyen Ai Quoc's lectures at these training classes were compiled and printed as the book "Duong Cach Menh" (The Revolutionary Path) - an important theoretical document that laid the ideological foundation for the Vietnamese revolutionary path.
- May 1927: Nguyen Ai Quoc left Guangzhou for Moscow (Soviet Union), from the Soviet Union to France, then to Belgium to attend the General Assembly of the Anti-Imperialist League, after which he went to Germany, Italy and from there back to Asia.
- July 1928 - November 1929: Nguyen Ai Quoc was active in the patriotic Vietnamese expatriate movement in Siam (Thailand), continuing preparations for the founding of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
- From February 3rd to 7th, 1930: He presided over the Party Founding Conference held in Kowloon (Hong Kong, China). The conference unanimously agreed on the merger of the Party and approved the name of the Party as the Communist Party of Vietnam. The conference adopted the Party's official documents: the Brief Political Program, the Brief Strategy, the Brief Regulations, etc., which he drafted.
- June 1931: He was arrested by the British authorities in Hong Kong. He was released at the end of 1932.
- 1934-1938: Nguyen Ai Quoc studied at the Institute for Research on Colonial and National Issues in Moscow (Soviet Union). Persistently following the path he had set for the Vietnamese revolution, he continued to monitor and direct the revolutionary movement in the country.
- October 1938: He left the Soviet Union for China, made contact with the Party organization, and prepared to return home.
- January 28, 1941: Nguyen Ai Quoc returned to Vietnam after more than 30 years away from his homeland.
- May 1941: Upon returning to Vietnam, he convened the 8th Conference of the Central Executive Committee of the Indochinese Communist Party, established the "Vietnam Independence League" (Viet Minh), organized armed liberation forces, built base areas, and led the people in partial uprisings and the General Uprising to seize power throughout the country.
- August 1942: Adopting the name Ho Chi Minh, he represented the Viet Minh Front and the Vietnamese branch of the International Anti-Aggression Association in China, seeking international alliances and coordinated action against fascism in the Pacific theater. He was arrested by Chiang Kai-shek's local authorities and imprisoned in Guangxi province. During his 1 year and 14 days in prison, he wrote the poetry collection "Prison Diary," containing 133 poems in Chinese characters.
- September 1943: He was released.
- September 1944: He returned to Pac Bo (Cao Bang).
- December 1944: He directed the establishment of the Vietnam Propaganda and Liberation Army, the predecessor of the Vietnam People's Army.
- May 1945: He left Cao Bang and went to Tan Trao (Tuyen Quang).
- August 1945: At his suggestion, the National Conference of the Party and the National Congress of the People met and decided on a general uprising. The National Congress elected the Vietnam National Liberation Committee (i.e., the Provisional Government) with Ho Chi Minh as Chairman. He, along with the Central Committee of the Party, led the people in a successful uprising to seize power.
- September 2, 1945: At Ba Dinh Square, he read the "Declaration of Independence," proclaiming the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
- January 1, 1946: The Provisional Coalition Government was established with Ho Chi Minh as President and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
- January 1946: The First National Assembly elected him as President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
- March 2, 1946: The coalition government of resistance was established with Ho Chi Minh as its president.
- November 3, 1946: President Ho Chi Minh was tasked by the National Assembly with forming a new government in which he served as President and Prime Minister (from November 1946 to September 1955) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (from November 1946 to 1947).
- December 19, 1946: The person who issued the National Call to Arms for Resistance against French colonial aggression to protect the independence and freedom of the Fatherland.
- 1951: At the Second National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (the Party publicly adopted the name Vietnam Labor Party), he was elected Chairman of the Central Executive Committee. Under the leadership of the Central Committee, headed by President Ho Chi Minh, the Vietnamese people's resistance war against French colonial aggression achieved great victories, culminating in the great victory at Dien Bien Phu (May 7, 1954).
- 1955: The Central Committee of the Party and President Ho Chi Minh set forth two strategic tasks for the Vietnamese revolution: to carry out the socialist revolution and build socialism in the North, while simultaneously fighting for the liberation of the South, achieving national reunification, and completing the national democratic revolution throughout the country.
- October 1956: At the 10th Expanded Central Committee Conference (2nd term), President Ho Chi Minh was elected Chairman of the Party, concurrently serving as General Secretary of the Party.
- September 1960: At the Third Party Congress, he was re-elected as Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Vietnam Workers' Party.
- July 1960 - September 1969: Elected President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam at the first session of the 2nd and 3rd National Assemblies.
- September 2, 1969: President Ho Chi Minh passed away in Hanoi.
- 1990: On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth, President Ho Chi Minh was honored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as a national liberation hero and an outstanding cultural figure.
