Ho Chi Minh

Aims and Learning Outcomes

Aims

• To explain the role of Ho Chi Minh in achieving independence for Vietnam and eventually uniting North and South Vietnam.

Learning Outcomes

These notes should help students to improve and develop their knowledge and understanding of such issues as:

• Why Ho Chi Minh became a Communist agent
• Why he used methods of guerrilla warfare against his opponents
• Why most of the population of Vietnam supported Ho Chi Minh’s campaigns