HO CHI MINH & SUKARNO: Ho Chi Minh (1890 - 1969)

A part of the series America in the 20th Century. It was the longest war in America’s history and the most divisive in more than a century. This program explores the genesis of America’s painful military “quagmire” from the roots of Vietnamese nationalism through a century of French colonial rule to the first Indochina war; it then takes viewers from John F. Kennedy’s initial deployment of military advisers through increases and escalations under the Johnson administration to the final, tragic moments of Saigon’s fall in the spring of 1975. Correlates to standards from the National Council for the Social Studies. A viewable/printable instructor’s guide is available online. (72 minutes)

Man of the Month: Ho Chi Minh, 1966 CREATED BY National Security Council. Central Intelligence Agency.

In 1919, the Allied Powers meet in Paris. Nguyen Ai Quoc (Ho Chi Minh) gives President Wilson's secretary a petition he wrote with other Vietnamese Nationalist. Ho Chi Minh lives in exile for 30 years and joins the French Socialist Party before becoming a Communist; he helps establish the Indochinese Communist Party. Distributed by PBS Distribution.