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Édouard Daladier

French politician (1884-1970)

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Édouard Daladier was a French politician who served as Prime Minister during the critical years leading up to World War II, most notably signing the Munich Agreement in 1938 that allowed Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia. He remains a historically significant but controversial figure because his diplomatic decisions at Munich have been debated as either a necessary compromise or a catastrophic failure to stop Hitler's expansion.

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Édouard Daladier ( French: [edwaʁ daladje]; 18 June 1884 – 10 October 1970) was a French Radical-Socialist (centre-left) politician, who was the Prime Minister of France in 1933, 1934 and again from 1938 to 1940.

Daladier was born in Carpentras and began his political career before World War I. During the war, he fought on the Western Front and was decorated for his service. After the war, he became a leading figure in the Radical Party and Prime Minister in 1933 and 1934. Daladier was Minister of Defence from 1936 to 1940 and Prime Minister again in 1938. As head of government, he expanded the French welfare state in 1939.