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Ho Chi Minh was educated at the New York City College in NY, NY, USA. He worked as a bus boy in a New York Restaurant while attending college. His American Education is why the Vietnamese Constitution is almost word for word the same as the USA Constitution.

He appeared at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 that resulted in the Treaty of Versailles and other treaties ending WWI and petitioned for settlement of the French Indo China question. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson refused to allow the presentation of his petition.

Ho Chi Minh returned to Viet Nam and organized the "Intercolonial Union" in 1921. He requested the USA assist Vietnam in obtaining independence from France. The USA refused because France was an Allie and a trading partner. Most of the Rubber consumed the USA at that time came from the French owned Michelon Rubber Plantations in Indo China. The USA did not want to disturb the supply of rubber that was critical for American Industry and economy. Everything rolled on rubber wheels at that time.

Ho Chi Minh then turned to the Communist in the Soviet Union for assistance in gaining independence from France. The Soviet Union provided guns and materials necessary to fight a war of independence against the French.

Years later when the Communist seized control of China, Ho Chi Minh obtained the help of China in fighting the USA in Vietnam.

He was an international statesman. He was not successful at the Paris Peace Treaties, nor in getting the USA to support him, but he did forge alliances with the Soviet Union and China at a time when both were closed to the rest of the world behind the "Iron Curtain" and "Bamboo Curtain".

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Ho Chi Minh was a Vietnamese school teacher who wanted Vietnam to be united. He studied the American Revolution and used the American Declaration of Independence as a guide.

Ho was the son of a Confucian scholar and judge. He trained to be a Confucian scholar too and went to Chinese, Vietnamese, and the French school in Vietnam. When his father fell into disfavor and was executed he had to leave the country at college age.

He couldn't get proper papers from the governments that had executed the father so he traveled under fake names with no papers. It's hard then to document exactly where he went.

What is known is that he left Vietnam by ship by working odd jobs on freighters in return for passage. He claimed later to have gone to all the countries you mentioned (US, UK, France, others) as the freighters drove him around the world and to have gotten odd jobs/ student type jobs in port cities (New York, Boston, West London, Marseille) like waiter, dish washer, baker, cook etc.

He's known for sure to have ended up in Paris in the Vietnamese community there (as France had Vietnam back then as a colony) was accepted to university and got in with the communist students of the day, studied politics/ government gave up Confucianism and became a communist. He did student type jobs off and on, wrote articles for communist papers/ magazines, started a communist political party and became a successful young communist good at politics/ political writing. As such like other communists he traveled to Moscow in the 1920's where the communist Soviet government employed he and his buddies in propaganda/ political writing/ political education.

In the 1930's he went back to China/ Indochina to work for the Chinese communists against the Chinese nationalists. His mature jobs in China were again in....political teaching, writing, propaganda, political parties.

In WWII (1941) he returned to Vietnam with communist Chinese backing to lead the 'Viet Minh' national communist coalition then fighting the Japanese and the Vichy French that wanted A.) Independence for Vietnam, B.) A communist Vietnam.

When young and college age he did the odd jobs for....money/ survival... and because as a Confucian he was originally taught to do humble work.