Photos recall August Revolution, foundation of Vietnam

On August 14, 1945, the Ba To Guerilla Unit moved to Quang Ngai town in the central region to join local people to rise up to seize power (Photo: VNA)

People in Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, took to the streets to respond to the call for general uprising launched by the Party Central Committee and President Ho Chi Minh in August 1945 (Photo: VNA)

On August 19, 1945, tens of thousands of people of Hanoi and neighbouring provinces moved to the square in front of the Hanoi Opera House to show the support for the general uprising to seize power from the Japanese fascists and their puppets (Photo: VNA)

People gathered in front of the Hanoi Opera House to support the August Revolution in 1945 (Photo: VNA)

Hanoians went on a march and occupied the Residential Palace of the Tonkin Governor, now the State Guest House, on August 19, 1945 (Photo: VNA)

People gathered at Ba Dinh Square on September 2, 1945, to listen to the Declaration of Independence read by President Ho Chi Minh (Photo: VNA)

The platform where President Ho Chi Minh read the Declaration of Independence on September 2, 1945 (Photo: VNA)

President Ho Chi Minh read the Declaration of Independence on September 2, 1945. The Democratic Republic of Vietnam was the first State of workers and farmers in Southeast Asia (Photo: VNA)

President Ho Chi Minh (front, centre) and other members of the provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam after the August Revolution in 1945 succeeded (Photo: VNA)