What was hoo chi minh’s main goal when he became the leader of the nationalist movement in vietnam in 1940? to stop communism from spreading to vietnam to divide vietnam into two separate countries to gain vietnam’s independence from france to seek economic and military support from france

HoChi Minh’s main goal when he became the leader of the nationalist movement in Vietnam in 1940 was to gain Vietnam’s independence from France.

After a long trip, HoChi Minh returned to Vietnam after 20 years on February 8, 1941. He immediately convened a plenary session of the Vietnamese Communist Party in which it was decided to create a broad political front to fight against the new Japanese occupier and the French colonial power, which they called Viet Minh.

The Viet Minh organized a general insurrection, achieved national independence (on September 2, 1945, declared in Hanoi) and founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, a socialist state. But when the French colonialists returned in 1946, a new and bloody war that lasted for nine years was unleashed.

stop the spread of Communism.