With the imminent surrender of the Empire of Japan approaching, Chairman Ho Chi Minh, of the communist Workers’ Party of Vietnam, forms a coalition-provisional government for Vietnam.
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References:
Stanley A. Karnow, Vietnam: A History, (1983; New York: Penguin, 1997), 161.
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