Cabinet
Forms a Cabinet without Socialists, will not adhere to the Socialist financial program
Role range: 1933-1940 – 1933-1933
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Edouard Daladier Biography and Timeline
Follow Edouard Daladier through 42 dated historical records for France.
Edouard Daladier, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
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1933–1942Years on this page
1933
Gold Bloc Declaration
France joins Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Switzerland in declaring their intention to maintain existing gold parities despite the spreading international monetary breakdown.
Role range: 1933-1933
Pact between France, Germany, Great Britain and Italy
A pact between France, Germany, Great Britain and Italy is signed
Role range: 1933-1940 – 1933-1933
Prime Minister of France
Appointed Prime Minister of France, 1st term
Role range: 1933-1940 – 1933-1933
1934
Prime Minister of France
Appointed Prime Minister of France, 2nd term
Role range: 1933-1940 – 1934-1934
1938
Prime Minister of France
Forms a popular front coalition of radicals, Socialists & Communists
Role range: 1938-1940
Prime Minister of France
Appointed Prime Minister of France, 3rd term
Role range: 1933-1940 – 1938-1940
Treaty of Munich
Daladier joined British ministers in developing proposals to transfer German-majority areas of Czechoslovakia.
Role range: 1938-1940
Bad Godesberg
Daladier examined the Godesberg memorandum after Chamberlain returned from Germany without an agreement.
Role range: 1938-1940
Godesberg
Daladier examined the Godesberg memorandum after Chamberlain returned from Germany without an agreement.
Role range: 1938-1940
Treaty of Munich
Daladier rejected Germany's demand for immediate military occupation and supported French precautionary mobilization.
Role range: 1938-1940
Bad Godesberg
Daladier joined Chamberlain in emergency consultations on the German demands and the risk of war.
Role range: 1938-1940
Godesberg
Daladier joined Chamberlain in emergency consultations on the German demands and the risk of war.
Role range: 1938-1940
Treaty of Munich
Daladier represented France at the conference and accepted the transfer of the Sudetenland to Germany.
Role range: 1938-1940
Munich Agreement
Follows policy of appeasement & signs the Munich agreement
Role range: 1933-1940 – 1938-1940
Treaty of Munich
Follows policy of appeasement & signs the Munich agreement
Role range: 1933-1940 – 1938-1940
Treaty of Munich
Daladier signed the agreement requiring Czechoslovakia to evacuate designated Sudeten territories.
Role range: 1938-1940
Treaty of Munich
Daladier returned to Paris and received a large public welcome despite his doubts about the agreement.
Role range: 1938-1940
Partition
"take place without bloodshed in such a way as to save the face of France & England"
Role range: 1938-1940
Popular Front
Helps form a popular front with the Communist Party & Leon Blums Socialist Party
1939
Alliance Agreement
The Soviet Union offers a Soviet-British-French alliance which would guarantee the integrity of Poland, the consulations are unproductive
Role range: 1938-1940
Alliance Soviet-British-French alliance
The Soviet Union offers a Soviet-British-French alliance which would guarantee the integrity of Poland, the consulations are unproductive
Role range: 1938-1940
Invasion of Germany
France enters the Saar but does not advance further than a few miles
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1938-1940
Invasion of Saar
France enters the Saar but does not advance further than a few miles
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1938-1940
Supreme War Council
Hosts the first Anglo-French Supreme War Council after Poland is invaded.
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1938-1940
Foreign Secretary of France
Appointed Foreign Minister
War Cabinet
The French follow Britains example & set up a War Cabinet
Role range: 1938-1940
Foreign Secretary of France
Appointed Foreign Minister
Role range: 1939-1945
War Cabinet
The French follow Britains example & set up a War Cabinet
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1938-1940
Communist Party
Bans the Communist Party in both France & its colonies
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1938-1940
In a French TV broadcast Daladier dismisses Hitler's offer of peace
In a French TV broadcast Daladier dismisses Hitler's offer of peace
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1938-1940
Pact between Turkey, France and Great Britain
A pact of mutual assistance is signed between Turkey, France & Britain
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1938-1940
Supreme War Council
Rejects plans that might provoke German air retaliation.
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1938-1940
Narvik Planning
Supports Allied discussion of action in Scandinavia against the German ore route.
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1938-1940
1940
Supreme War Council
Presses for stronger Allied action in Scandinavia.
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1938-1940
Resignation of Edouard Daladier
Resigns after the Russian invasion of Finland
Role range: 1933-1940 – 1938-1940
Resignation of Edouard Daladier
Daladier resigns after the Russian invasion of Finland. Daladier fails to unite Parliament or the people behind his mobilization for the "phony war"
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1938-1940
Invasion of France
Attends an inter-allied conference in the Chateau at Casteau near Mons
Role range: 1939-1945
Exile of Edouard Daladier
Sets sail with other former French ministers to North Africa on the cruiser Massila
Role range: 1939-1945
1942
Arrest of Edouard Daladier
Interned by the Vichy Government & tried for betraying his country
Role range: 1939-1944
Records, sources and methodology
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