Viet Minh

See also: Vietminh and vietminh

English

Etymology

From Vietnamese Việt Minh, shorted form of Việt-Nam Độc-Lập Đông-Minh (Vietnam Independence League).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌviː.ɛt ˈmɪn/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌvi.ɛt ˈmɪn/

Proper noun

Viet Minh

  1. (historical) A Vietnamese Communist independence and nationalist movement led by Hồ Chí Minh in 1941 organized to wage a guerrilla war against the invading Imperial Japanese forces and later the French in an effort to drive colonialist powers out of Indochina.

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