The name of the state comes from the name of its capital city, Oaxaca. This name comes from the Nahuatl word Huaxyacac, which refers to a tree called a guaje (Leucaena leucocephala) found around the capital city.
He helped found the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930 and the League for the Independence of Vietnam, or Viet Minh, in 1941. At World War IIâs end, Viet Minh forces seized the northern Vietnamese city of Hanoi and declared a Democratic State of Vietnam (or North Vietnam) with Ho as president.
North Vietnam established the National Liberation Front on December 20, 1960 to foment insurgency in the South. Many of the Viá»t Cá»ng's core members were volunteer regroupees, southern Viet Minh who had resettled in the North after the Geneva Accord (1954).