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Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville

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Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville (1869–1940) prime minister of England, (1937–40) born in Birmingham. At the beginning of World War II, he tried to maintain peaceful relations with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini through a policy of appeasement, engineering the Munich Pact in 1938, which gave Hitler the Sudeten (an area of Czechoslovakia, one fifth of the country and rich in natural resources) in addition to other areas that went to Hungary and Poland. When he returned to England in triumph, he proclaimed, “I believe it is peace in our time,” but his optimism had no basis and the failure of appeasement became obvious when Hitler invaded and conquered Czechoslovakia in 1939. After Germany's annexation of Czechoslovakia, Chamberlain guaranteed Poland against a similar fate, but, when Germany invaded Poland only months later, he declared war. His own party turned against him, and he was forced to resign when British forces were defeated in Norway.

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