Draft:Leaders of the First Indochina War

Communist

DR Vietnam and Viet Minh

• Hồ Chí Minh was President of DR Vietnam and Chairman of Viet Minh.
• Võ Nguyên Giáp was Supreme Commander-in-chief of PAVN,National Guard and Viet Minh
• Trường Chinh was Indochinese Communist Party and Worker’s Party of Vietnam.
• Phạm Văn Đồng was Deputy Prime Minister of DR Vietnam.
• Nguyễn Chí Thanh was Director of the General Department of Politics of the People's Army of Vietnam.
• Hoàng Văn Thái was Chief of staff of the General Staff of the People's Army of Vietnam
• Lê Trọng Tấn was an officer of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) during 1945 to 1986.
• Văn Tiến Dũng was a PAVN commander.
• Chu Huy Mân was was a general in the People's Army of Vietnam active during the First Indochina War.
• Vương Thừa Vũ was a lieutenant-general in the People's Army of Vietnam active during World War II, the First Indochina War, He commanded Viet Minh forces in their early engagements at Hanoi in 1946, directing the city's two month-long defence against French forces. By 1949, during the Viet Minh's transition from guerrilla to regular warfare, he had risen to command the PAVN's first modern infantry division, the 308th, which he led into battle at Dien Bien Phu in 1954.
• Trần Văn Giàu was Chairman of Southern Resistance Committe during War in Vietnam (1945-1946).
• Nguyễn Bình was General Commander of Southern Viet Minh forces and Vice Chairman of Southern Resistance Commitee.
• Lê Duẩn was Party Secretary of Cochinchina.
• Dương Văn Dương was pro-Viet Minh commander of Bình Xuyên.

Lao Issara

• Phetsarath Ratanavongsa was Head of State of Laos and leader of Lao Issara Movement.

Pathet Laos

• Souphanouvong was leader of Pathet Lao.
• Kaysone Phomvihane was was the first leader of the Communist Lao.

Khmer Issarak

• Tou Samouth was General Secretary of the Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party.
• Poc Khun was the organizer and leader of the first Khmer Issarak movement founded in 1940 to resist French colonial power in Cambodia.He also is Chairman of Khmer National Liberation Committee.
• Sơn Ngọc Minh was co-founder of the Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP), the predecessor to the Communist Party of Kampuchea.
• Dap Chhuon was leader of the Khmer People's Liberation Committee.
• Norodom Chantaraingsey was non-communist leaders of the Khmer Issarak, leading armed resistance in the provinces of Kompong Speu and Kompong Thom at the head of a large private militia.In 1949 he joined the Khmer National Liberation Committee, becoming its Supreme Army Chief, then from 1951 he associated himself with the forces of Son Ngoc Thanh in Siem Reap, though he continued to operate as a regional warlord, maintaining his own troops.
• Long Bunruot was Cambodian communist politician and revolutionary.

Soviet Union

• Joseph Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952 and Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1941 until his death.
• Georgy Malenkov was Second Secretary of the Communist Party and Leader of Soviet Union.
• Vyacheslav Molotov was First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union.

Communist China

• Mao Zedong was Chairman of CPP and first Chairman of People’s Republic of China.
• Zhou Enlai was Premier of the People’s Republic of China.
• Chen Geng was Chinese military advisor for North Vietnam.