Neville Chamberlain

Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a British Conservative politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. Chamberlain is best known for appeasement foreign policy, in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany, and, when Germany continued its aggression, for his "containment" policy of Germany in 1939 that culmi... more

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  • Mar 18, 1869

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  • Nov 9, 1940 (age 71 years)

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  • Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain

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  • May 28, 1937
  • May 10, 1940
  • May 28, 1937
  • May 10, 1940
  • May 28, 1937
  • May 10, 1940
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of United Kingdom

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