What did Neville Chamberlain do?

Answer 1

Neville Chamberlain born 1869 died 1940 Neville Chamberlain was the British prime minister between 1937 and 1940, and is closely associated with the policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany. During 1915 he was appointed lord mayor of Birmingham and the following year Lloyd George appointed him director-general of the department of national service. In 1918, Chamberlain was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Ladywood, Birmingham. He served as both Chancellor of the Exchequer (1923 - 1924) and minister of health (1923, 1924 -1929, and 1931) and during 1937 he succeeded Stanley Baldwin as prime minister. His policy of appeasement towards Adolf Hitler culminated in the Munich Agreement in which Britain and France accepted that the Czech region of the Sudetenland should be ceded to Germany. Chamberlain left Munich believing he had assured 'peace for our time'. However, in March 1939 Hitler annexed the rest of the Czech lands of Bohemia and Moravia, with Slovakia becoming a puppet state of Germany. Five months later in September 1939 Hitler's forces invaded Poland. Chamberlain responded with a British declaration of war on Germany. During 1940 after the disastrous Norwegian campaign Chamberlain resigned and Winston Churchill became prime minister. Chamberlain served in Churchill's cabinet as lord president of the council. Chamberlin's policy of appeasement was borne out of the experience of the First World War and whatever is thought of his policy now days, most people welcomed it at the time and it did give extra time for Britain to start to fully rearm.