Vietminh Definition & Meaning

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Vietminh American [vee-et-min, vyet-, vee-it-] / viˌɛtˈmɪn, ˌvyɛt-, ˌvi ɪt- / Or Viet Minh

noun

1. a Vietnamese, Communist-led organization whose forces fought against the Japanese and especially against the French in Indochina: officially in existence 1941–51.

2. (used with a plural verb) the leaders, supporters, and fighters of this organization.

adjective

1. of or relating to the Vietminh.

Vietminh British / ˌvjɛtˈmɪn /

noun

1. a Vietnamese organization led by Ho Chi Minh that first fought the Japanese and then the French (1941–54) in their attempt to achieve national independence

2. a member or group of members of this organization, esp in the armed forces

3. (modifier) of or relating to this organization or to its members

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Etymology

Origin of Vietminh

< Vietnamese Việt-Minh, short for Việt-Nam Độc-Lập Đông-Minh Vietnam Independence League

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Some nine hundred thousand refugees moved south, roughly two-thirds of them Catholics, while only thirty thousand people—mostly Vietminh cadres—went north.

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This was accompanied by a “rumor campaign that the Vietminh were being sent into China as railroad laborers.”

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One of these local agents, who happened to be the chief of police in Hanoi, was arrested by French police after an early-morning car chase through the city; the phony “Vietminh” posters that he was distributing were so convincing that he was held as a suspected Vietminh operative.

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He found that the reports originated with a rumor campaign that had been started by the South Vietnamese army’s G-5, at his suggestion, to create the impression that the Vietminh were tools of Chinese imperialists.

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Lansdale bragged that “the day following the distribution of these leaflets, refugee registration tripled. Two days later Vietminh currency was worth half the value prior to the leaflets.”

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