| It was meant to prevent Viet Minh soldiers concealing themselves and destroy crops. |
| By 1959, Viet Minh soldiers were infiltrating the South and escalating the violence in South Vietnam. |
| Vietnamese communists under Ho Chi Minh organized a coalition of anti-colonial groups, the Viet Minh, though many anti-communists refused to join. |
| In February 1947, following the Battle of Hanoi, France reoccupied Hanoi and the Viet Minh once again assumed the position of guerrillas, fighting in the mountains. |
| In 1954, in accordance with the Geneva Accords putting an end to war between Vietnam and France, the members of the opposing Viet Minh in South-Vietnam merged with the North-Vietnamese to separate the warring parties. |
| Having appropriated the nationalist mantle and communist ideology, the Viet Minh were popular heroes. |
