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.
1 North and South Vietnam were divided at the 17th parallel. 2  Ho Chi Minh died during the war in 1969. 3  The city of Saigon was later renamed to Ho Chi Minh City in his honor. 4  The US chosen president of the South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, was not a good leader.