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The British Prime Minister at the start of WWII was Neville Chamberlain. Along with the Prime Ministers of France and Italy, he attepted to appease Adolf Hitler at the Munich Conference in1938 by allowing the German Reich to annex parts of Czechoslovakia which were occupied by ethnic Germans (Sudetenland). Chamberlain's naivity became apparent when he returned from the conference and was filmed waving his copy of the agreement and pronouncing that the conference had secured peace in our time

The Sudetenland was occupied by Germany between October 1 and October 10. Germany then broke the agreement by subsequently invading and annexing the whole of Czechoslovakia in March 1939.

When Hitler continued his aggression, Britain declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939, and Chamberlain led Britain through the first eight months of WWII. Following the failed Allied invasion of Norway in 1940, Chamberlain resigned to make way for a Prime Minister who could be supported by all the political parties. He was succeeded by Sir Winston Churchill, who served as Prime Minister until the end of the war.

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