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Ho Chi Minh
(redirected from Uncle Ho)

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Ho Chi Minh  (h ch mn) 1890-1969.
Vietnamese leader and first president of North Vietnam (1954-1969). His army was victorious in the French Indochina War (1946-1954), and he later led North Vietnam's struggle to defeat the U.S.-supported government in South Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh died before the reunification of Vietnam (1976).

Ho Chi Minh [ˈhəʊ ˈtʃiː ˈmɪn]
n
(Biographies / Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) M, Vietnamese, POLITICS: statesman, POLITICS: nationalist leader) original name Nguyen That Tan. 1890-1969, Vietnamese statesman; president of North Vietnam (1954-69). He headed the Vietminh (1941), which won independence for Vietnam from the French (1954)
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Noun1.Ho Chi Minh - Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South Vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969)


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Towing a lofty plume of red dust, we pass a memorial bearing a star and the likeness of Uncle Ho, and jounce into the interior.
Ho Chi Minh''s Mausoleum complex is dedicated to the man who dubbed himself Uncle Ho, the Father of modern Vietnam.
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