Édouard Daladier and the Road to World War II

Édouard Daladier

French Radical-Socialist politician. He entered politics after working as a history teacher and fought on the front lines for the French military during World War I. Following the war, he became a prominent leader of the Radical-Socialist Party, serving three terms as Prime Minister of France in 1933, 1934, and from 1938 to 1940. From 1936 onward, he prioritized defense policy and advanced rearmament, signing the Munich Agreement in 1938. During World War II, he declared war on Germany. After France's defeat in 1940, he was detained by the Vichy regime and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp and other facilities in Germany. Post-war, he served as a member of parliament and Mayor of Avignon before retiring from politics in 1958.

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Year	Édouard Daladier
1884	Birth of Édouard Daladier (Period: June 18, 1884, Location: Carpentras (Vaucluse, France))
1912	Appointment as Mayor of Carpentras (Édouard Daladier, Age: 27 years old, Period: 1912, Location: Carpentras, France)
1914	World War I (Age: 29 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Western Front, Belgium and France)
1915	Military service in World War I (Age: 30 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Western Front)
1919	First Election to Parliament (Édouard Daladier, Age: 34 years old, Period: 1919, Location: Vaucluse Department, France) Marriage (Édouard Daladier, Madeleine Lafont, Age: 34 years old, Period: 1919, Location: Paris, France)
1933	Stavisky Affair (Age: 48 years old, Period: 1933–1934, Location: France) First Appointment as Prime Minister (Édouard Daladier, Age: 48 years old, Period: January 31 – October 26, 1933, Location: Paris, France)
1934	6 February 1934 Crisis (Age: 49 years old, Period: February 6, 1934, Location: Paris, France)
1936	Appointment as Minister of National Defense and French Rearmament (Édouard Daladier, Age: 51 years old, Period: 1936–1938, Location: Paris, France)
1938	Sudeten Crisis (Age: 53 years old, Period: 1938, Location: Czechoslovakia, Germany, France, and United Kingdom) Second Appointment as Prime Minister (Édouard Daladier, Age: 53 years old, Period: January 30 – February 9, 1938, Location: Paris, France) Third Appointment as Prime Minister (Édouard Daladier, Age: 53 years old, Period: April 10, 1938 – March 21, 1940, Location: Paris, France) Munich Crisis / Munich Agreement (Age: 54 years old, Period: September 1938, Location: Munich, Germany) Signing of the Munich Agreement (Age: 54 years old, Period: September 29–30, 1938, Location: Munich, Germany)
1939	World War II (Age: 54 years old, Period: 1939–1945, Location: UK, France, North Africa, Mediterranean, Atlantic, etc.) Declaration of War on Germany (Age: 55 years old, Period: September 3, 1939, Location: Paris, France) Winter War (Age: 55 years old, Period: November 1939 – March 1940, Location: Finland)
1940	Resignation as Prime Minister (Édouard Daladier, Age: 55 years old, Period: March 21, 1940, Location: Paris, France) Nazi Occupation of the Netherlands (Age: 55 years old, Period: May 1940 – May 1945, Location: Netherlands, especially Amsterdam) French Defeat and Detention (Age: 55 years old, Period: June 1940 – 1943, Location: France, especially Portalet Fortress, etc.)
1942	Riom Trial (Age: 57 years old, Period: 1942–1943, Location: Lyon, France)
1943	Transfer and Imprisonment in Germany (Age: 58 years old, Period: 1943–1945, Location: Buchenwald Concentration Camp and Castle Itter)
1946	Postwar Return to Politics (Age: 61 years old, Period: 1946–1958, Location: France)
1951	Marriage (Édouard Daladier, Jeanne Boucoiran, Age: 66 years old, Period: 1951, Location: France)
1958	Retirement from Politics (Édouard Daladier, Age: 73 years old, Period: 1958, Location: France)
1970	Death of Édouard Daladier (Age: 86 years old, Period: October 10, 1970)

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British Politics	David Lloyd George Winston Churchill Stanley Baldwin Neville Chamberlain Clement Attlee Anthony Eden Edward Wood Ernest Bevin
French Politics	Georges Clemenceau Charles de Gaulle Paul Reynaud Édouard Daladier Léon Blum Philippe Pétain Maxime Weygand Maurice Gamelin
Jewish relief	Anne Frank Etty Hillesum Edith Stein Raoul Wallenberg Aristides de Sousa Mendes Varian Fry Nicholas Winton Chiune Sugihara
Nuclear Science	Lise Meitner James Chadwick John Cockcroft Ernest Walton Patrick Blackett Mark Oliphant Otto Hahn Otto Robert Frisch

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