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| 1914 | Election |  |
| Aubervilliers Laval enters politics winning a seat in the Chamber of Deputies as member of the Socialist SFIO
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| 1919 | Election | |
| Loses seat as a Socialist deputy, regarded as a defeatist during World War I
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| 1925 | Minister | |
| Appointed Minister of Public Works
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| 1926 | Election | |
| Elected to the Senate
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| 1926 | Minister | |
| Appointed Minister of Justice
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| 1930 | Minister | |
| Appointed Minister of Labour
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| 1931 | Minister | |
| Appointed Minister of the Interior
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| 1931 | Prime Minister | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of France, 1st term
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| 1934 | Minister | |
| Appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs
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| 1934 | Referendum | |
| 4th Dec Saarland Accepts Eden's offer to send a force to preserve order against Nazi intimidation
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| 1935 | Alliance | |
| 7th Jan Paris A settlement between Abyssinia & Italy
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| 7th Jan Paris Parts of Abyssinia are ceded to Italy, the ensuing outcry forces Hoare to resign
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| 7th Jan Paris Signed by Samuel Hoare & Pierre Laval
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| 2nd May Paris Signs the Franco-Soviet pact, guaranteeing mutual assistance over 5 years
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| 1935 | Diplomacy | |
| 3rd Feb London A memo is issued to negotiate with Germany over arms & League of Nations membership
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| 3rd Feb London Flandin & Laval visit London
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| 7th Mar Paris Re-establishment of the French-Belgium military pact
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| 20th Mar Paris France complains to the League of Nations about Germany's conscription & the Luftwaffe
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| 2nd May French-Soviet pact, effective for five years, for mutual help in the case of an attack by an European nation
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| 16th May Soviet-Czechoslovakian pact, valid only if France supports both parties
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| 1935 | Pact | |
| 7th Mar Re-establishment of the French-Belgium military pact
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| 2nd May French-Soviet pact, effective for five years, for mutual help in the case of an attack by an European nation
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| 16th May Soviet-Czechoslovakian pact, valid only if France supports both parties
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| 1935 | Referendum | |
| Saarland Says he will act against German intervention after refering to the League of Nations
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| 1940 | Arrest | |
| 13th Dec Laval is dismissed and arrested, pressure from German ambassador Otto Abetz secures his release, Laval leaves for Paris and the protection of his German patron
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| 1940 | Collaboration | |
| 22nd Oct Montoire Laval meets with Hitler, offers his own collaboration and arranges a meeting two days later at which Petain pledges the collaboration of the French State as well
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| 13th Dec Laval is dismissed and arrested, pressure from German ambassador Otto Abetz secures his release, Laval leaves for Paris and the protection of his German patron
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| 1940 | Invasion of France | |
| 22nd Oct Montoire Laval meets with Hitler, offers his own collaboration and arranges a meeting two days later at which Petain pledges the collaboration of the French State as well
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| 1940 | Vice Prime Minister | |
| July Vichy Appointed Vice Prime Minister of France after the collapse of France
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| Oct Vichy Appointed Vice Prime Minister in the Vichy Government of Marshal Philippe Petain
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| 1941 | Collaboration | |
| 27th Aug Versailles Laval is shot four times while reviewing the Legion des Volontaires Francais at Versailles, he survives his wounds and is returned to power in Vichy on April 18,1942
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| 1942 | Arrest | |
| Released from prison under Hitler's orders
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| 1942 | Collaboration | |
| 22nd Aug Laval goes on the radio to announce la Releve, under which the Germans agree to free one French prisoner for every three French workers who volunteer for work in Germany
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| 22nd Aug Laval proclaims on that he," hoped for German victory because without it tomorrow Bolshevism will be everywhere"
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| 1942 | Government | |
| Leads a German puppet Government
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| Raises an army for Hitler & allows deportation to Germany for forced Labour
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| 1942 | Prime Minister | |
| Appointed Prime Minister of France, 2nd term
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| 1942 | Trial | |
| Vichy Blum & Daladier expose the trials & Vichy France loses American support
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| Riom Trials held by the Vichy government of those responsible for the 1940 French collapse
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| 1943 | Collaboration | |
| Laval institutes the Service du Travail Obligatoire (conscription for forced labor) and unleashes la Milice to enforce it
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| 1943 | Milice, La | |
| Laval institutes the Service du Travail Obligatoire (conscription for forced labor) and unleashes la Milice to enforce it
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| 1943 | Service du Travail Obligatoire | |
| Laval institutes the Service du Travail Obligatoire (conscription for forced labor) and unleashes la Milice to enforce it
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| 1944 | Arrest | |
| 31st July Innsbruck Expelled by the Spanish. flees to Austria & arrested by US troops for treason
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| 1944 | Capital | |
| Belfort The French resistance force Laval to move his government to Belfort & into Germany
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| 1944 | Collaboration | |
| Aug Laval leaves Paris with the Germans, he joins the other Vichy exiles in Belfort and later in Sigmaringen, Germany
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| 1944 | Exile | |
| 31st July Innsbruck Expelled by the Spanish. flees to Austria & arrested by US troops for treason
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| 1944 | Exile of Laval | |
| Aug Laval leaves Paris with the Germans, he joins the other Vichy exiles in Belfort and later in Sigmaringen, Germany
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| 1945 | Death | |
| 15th Oct Fresnes Death of Pierre Laval, executed
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| 1945 | Execution | |
| 15th Oct Fresnes Shot by a firing squad for high treason
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| 1945 | Exile | |
| July Flown to Spain a few days before the German surrender, Franco has Laval arrested and turned over to the Americans in Austria who extradite him to the French authorities in July
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| 1945 | Trial | |
| 9th Oct Fresnes The Prime Minister of France is sentenced to death for high treason
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