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Neville Chamberlain
Arthur Neville Chamberlain
(18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a British
Conservative
politician who served as
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his
appeasement
foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the
Munich Agreement
in 1938, conceding the German-speaking
Sudetenland
region of
Czechoslovakia
to
Germany
. However, when
Adolf Hitler
later
invaded Poland
, the UK declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, and Chamberlain led Britain through the first eight months of
World War II
.
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