Step 1 : Introduction to the question "After the end of the Vietnam War, Hanoi became the capital of the unified country. What name was given to Saigon, the former capital of South Vietnam?"
...In an obvious insult to the defeated American forces in Vietnam, the victorious North Vietnamese wasted no time in changing the name of Saigon to Ho Chi Minh City, in honor of their Communist leader who had died in 1969.