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.
Ho Chi Minh Speeches: Appeal Made on the Occasion of the Founding of the Vietnamese Communist Party, Ho Chi Minh, February 1930. Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, September 2, 1945. Photo: Portrait of Ho Chi Minh c. 1946.