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 December 1946 â Negotiations between the Viet Minh and the French break down. 2  The Viet Minh are driven out of Hanoi into the countryside. 3  1947â1949 â The Viet Minh fight a limited insurgency in remote rural areas of northern Vietnam.