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.
1957: the Vietminh started a campaign of guerrilla warfare in South Vietnam. 1959: American military advisors were killed in Vietnam â the first US. casualties; the Ho Chi Minh Trail was first used. 1960: the National Liberation Front (NLF) was formed in Hanoi though in the South, they were known as the Vietcong (VC)