Viet Minh

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A Vietnamese Communist independence and nationalist movement led by Hồ Chí Minh in 1941 organized to wage a guerrilla war against the invading Imperial Japanese forces and later the French in an effort to drive colonialist powers out of Indochina.

Pronunciation

/ˌviː.ɛt ˈmɪn/ /ˌvi.ɛt ˈmɪn/

Word forms

Viet Minh

Etymology

From Vietnamese Việt Minh, shorted form of Việt-Nam Độc-Lập Đông-Minh (Vietnam Independence League).

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