Édouard Daladier and the Road to World War II

European History

2026.10.07

Édouard Daladier

Édouard Daladier was a leading radical-socialist politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1938 to 1940. Facing growing German aggression, Daladier co-signed the Munich Agreement in 1938 alongside Neville Chamberlain, attempting to preserve European peace through concessions to Hitler. Recognizing the failure of appeasement, he subsequently accelerated French rearmament and officially declared war on Germany in September 1939 following the invasion of Poland. His government fell in March 1940 due to dissatisfaction over military inaction during the Phoney War. After the French defeat in 1940, Daladier was arrested by the Vichy regime, tried at the Riom Trial, and imprisoned in Buchenwald and Itter Castle by German authorities until his liberation in May 1945.

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British Politics	Winston ChurchillStanley BaldwinNeville ChamberlainClement AttleeAnthony EdenEdward WoodErnest Bevin
French Politics	Charles de GaullePaul ReynaudÉdouard DaladierLéon BlumPhilippe PétainMaxime WeygandMaurice Gamelin
Jewish relief	Anne FrankEtty HillesumEdith SteinRaoul WallenbergAristides de Sousa MendesVarian FryNicholas WintonChiune Sugihara
Nuclear Science	James ChadwickJohn CockcroftErnest WaltonPatrick BlackettMark OliphantOtto HahnOtto Robert Frisch