Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam

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declaration of independence historical document political speech

The Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was the 1945 declaration by Hồ Chí Minh in Hanoi that announced Vietnam’s independence from French colonial rule and the establishment of a new Vietnamese state.

Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form	Occurrences
Proclamation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on 1945-09-02	1
Tuyên ngôn Độc lập (Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa)	1
Vietnamese Declaration of Independence	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	declaration of independence ⓘ historical document ⓘ political speech ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ⓘ surface form: Tuyên ngôn Độc lập (Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa) Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ⓘ surface form: Vietnamese Declaration of Independence
announcedCapital	Hanoi ⓘ
author	Ho Chi Minh ⓘ surface form: Hồ Chí Minh
commemoratedOn	August Revolution in Vietnam ⓘ surface form: Vietnam National Day
commemorationDate	2 September ⓘ
country	Viet Nam ⓘ surface form: Vietnam
date	2 September 1945 ⓘ
declaredIndependenceFrom	France ⓘ French colonial rule in Indochina ⓘ
establishedState	Democratic Republic of Vietnam ⓘ
governmentFormed	Government of North Vietnam ⓘ surface form: provisional government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
headOfStateProclaimed	Ho Chi Minh ⓘ surface form: Hồ Chí Minh
historicalContext	August Revolution ⓘ Japanese surrender in World War II ⓘ
historicalPeriod	end of World War II ⓘ
ideologicalContext	anti-colonialism ⓘ nationalism ⓘ
influencedBy	French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen ⓘ American Declaration of Independence ⓘ surface form: United States Declaration of Independence
language	Vietnamese ⓘ
legalStatusClaimed	sovereign and independent state ⓘ
locationCountryAtTime	French Indochina ⓘ
mainTheme	assertion of Vietnamese sovereignty ⓘ condemnation of colonial exploitation ⓘ right of nations to self-determination ⓘ
movement	Vietnamese national liberation movement ⓘ
opposedBy	French colonial authorities ⓘ some Allied powers seeking French return ⓘ
place	Ba Đình Square ⓘ Hanoi ⓘ
politicalLeaderAtTime	Ho Chi Minh ⓘ surface form: Hồ Chí Minh
politicalOrganizationInvolved	Viet Minh ⓘ
politicalRegimeProclaimed	Democratic Republic ⓘ
quotedDocument	French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen ⓘ American Declaration of Independence ⓘ surface form: United States Declaration of Independence
readBy	Ho Chi Minh ⓘ surface form: Hồ Chí Minh
readToAudience	crowd at Ba Đình Square ⓘ
region	Southeast Asia ⓘ
resultedIn	beginning of the First Indochina War context ⓘ international attention to Vietnamese independence claim ⓘ
signedBy	Ho Chi Minh ⓘ surface form: Hồ Chí Minh
subsequentConflict	First Indochina War ⓘ
territorialClaim	entire territory of Vietnam ⓘ
typeOfEvent	public mass rally ⓘ
year	1945 ⓘ

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam → alsoKnownAs → Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ⓘ

this entity surface form: Vietnamese Declaration of Independence

Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam → alsoKnownAs → Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ⓘ

this entity surface form: Tuyên ngôn Độc lập (Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa)

August Revolution in Vietnam → followedBy → Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ⓘ

Government of North Vietnam → foundingDeclaration → Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ⓘ

Viet Minh → notableEvent → Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ⓘ

this entity surface form: Proclamation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on 1945-09-02

Ho Chi Minh → notableWork → Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ⓘ

Ba Đình Square → significantEvent → Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ⓘ