Neville Chamberlain

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940

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Lived 1869–1940, aged 71United Kingdom

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1869–1940
Aged 71

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Updated 2026-05-29

British PM from 1937-1940 best remembered for the Munich Agreement—basically betting everything on appeasing Hitler before World War II went full catastrophe. His premiership lasted just three years.

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Arthur Neville Chamberlain was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940 and Leader of the Conservative Party from May 1937 to October 1940. He is best known for his foreign policy of appeasement, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement on 30 September 1938, ceding the German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany led by Adolf Hitler. Following the invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, which marked the beginning of World War II, Chamberlain announced the declaration of war on Germany two days lat…

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