On 17 August 1945, the Viet Minh proclaimed it as the national flag of Vietnam at the meeting held in the village of Tan Trao in the North.Īs World War II drew to a close, the Japanese surrendered, the Viet Minh entered Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam independent and the flag became the official emblem of North Vietnam or the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on 02 September 1945. In 1941, the flag of Vietnam was displayed at a conference, at which the Viet Minh (a communist group) was founded by the leader Ho Chi Minh to support the locals in the war against the French colonial government. The Vietnamese flag was designed by Nguyen Huu Tien (Nguyễn Hữu Tiến), a leader of the uprising who was arrested by the French in advance of the failed uprising and executed 28 August 1941. It first appeared in the southern uprising (Nam Kỳ Khởi Nghĩa) on 23 November 1940, against French rule in Southern Vietnam. The Vietnamese flag is identified by its people and the global community today predates a unified and independent Vietnam.

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