The Viet Minh, short for the League for the Independence of Vietnam, was founded by Ho Chi Minh at a meeting in a cave in northern Vietnam. It brought together communists and other nationalists to resist both Japanese occupation and French colonial rule, with Vo Nguyen Giap as its military commander. At the end of the Second World War it led the August Revolution, and Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam's independence in September 1945. The movement then fought the French in the First Indochina War, which ended with the victory at Dien Bien Phu and the Geneva Accords. In 1951 it was merged into a broader front, the Lien Viet.
Before and after
- from 20 December 1940 to 15 December 19441940–1944 insurgency in Chechnya
- from 29 December 1940 to 30 December 1940Second Great Fire of London
- 1941Discovery of plutonium
- from 1941 to 1945Final Solution
- 1941Rise of Vietnamese Independence League
- 1941Publication of Aegukga
- from 1941 to 1945Rise of Chetniks
- 19411941 becomes the warmest year on record
- 5 January 1941Birth of Hayao Miyazaki
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