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| founder = [[Indochinese Communist Party]]
| location_country = [[French Indochina]]
| dissolved = {{end date|1951|03}} (''merged into the ''[[Lien Viet]]'' at end of World War II, which was itself absorbed into the ''[[Lao Dong]]'' in 1951)
| leader_title = Chairman
| leader_title2 = Military leader
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As of the end of 1944, the Việt Minh claimed a membership of 500,000, of which 200,000 were in [[Tonkin (French protectorate)|Tonkin]], 150,000 in [[Annam (French protectorate)|Annam]], and 150,000 in [[French Cochinchina|Cochinchina]].<ref>''The [[Pentagon Papers]]'' (1971), Beacon Press, vol. 1, p. 45.</ref><ref name="United States. Department of Defense 1971 p.B4">{{cite book | author=United States. Department of Defense | title=United States-Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: Study | publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office | issue=v. 10 | year=1971 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MHjOVH6k5BQC&pg=RA1-PA4 | access-date=2 January 2022 | page=B4}}</ref> After the [[Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina]], the Viet Minh and [[Indochinese Communist Party|ICP]] prolifically expanded their activities. They formed national salvation associations (cuu quoc hoi) that, in Quang Ngai province alone, enlisted 100,000 peasants by mid-1945. This was backed by the [[Vanguard Youth (Vietnam)|Vanguard Youth (Thanh Nien Tien Phong)]] in Cochinchina, which expanded to 200,000 by early summer. In the northern provinces of [[Việt Bắc]], their armed forces seized control, after which they distributed lands to the poor, abolished the corvee, established [[Vietnamese alphabet|quoc ngu]] classes, local village militias, and declared universal suffrage and democratic freedoms. <ref>Cima, R.J (1987). Vietnam: A Country Study. Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. p. 49.</ref>
Due to their opposition to the Japanese, the Việt Minh received funding from the [[United States]], the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[Republic of China]].<ref name="Schmermund 2017 p. 32">{{cite book | last=Schmermund | first=E. | title=Minority Soldiers Fighting in the Vietnam War | publisher=Cavendish Square Publishing | series=Fighting for Their Country: Minorities at War | year=2017 | isbn=978-1-5026-2666-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BHhmDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA32 | access-date=2 January 2022 | page=32}}</ref> After the [[August Revolution]]’s takeover of nationalist organizations and Emperor [[Bảo Đại]]'s abdication to the Việt Minh, [[Ho Chi Minh|Hồ Chí Minh]] declared Vietnam's independence by proclaiming the establishment of the [[Democratic Republic of Vietnam]] on 2 September 1945.<ref name="Lawrence 2008 p. 26">{{cite book | last=Lawrence | first=Mark A. | title=The Vietnam War: A Concise International History | publisher=Oxford University Press | year=2008 | isbn=978-0-19-971812-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vvZoAgAAQBAJ | access-date=3 January 2022 | page=26}}</ref>
[[File:Ba Dinh Square September 2nd, 1945.jpg|left|thumb|Ho Chi Minh declaring independence at Ba Dinh Square on September 2, 1945]]▼
▲[[File:Ba Dinh Square September 2nd, 1945.jpg|left|thumb|Ho Chi Minh declaring independence at Ba Dinh Square on September 2, 1945]]
==First Indochina War==
{{main|War in Vietnam (1945–46)|First Indochina War}}
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*[[Communist Party of Vietnam]]
*[[History of the Communist Party of Vietnam]]
==References==
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