VIETNAM

HO CHI MINH

He was born in May 19, 1890 in Vietnam.

was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary and statesman who was prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

Ho led the Viet Minh independence movement from 1941 onward, establishing the communist-governed Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and defeating the French Union.

The former capital of South Vietnam, Saigon, after the Fall of Saigon, was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in his honor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh

THE DOMINO THEORY

The domino theory was a foreign policy theory during the 1950s to 1980s, promoted at times by the government of the United States, that speculated that if one land in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.