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Who Was Neville Chamberlain?
Neville Chamberlain served as British prime minister from to and is best known for his policy of "appeasement" toward Adolf Hitler's Germany.
He signed the Munich Agreement in , relinquishing a region of Czechoslovakia to the Nazis. In , Britain declared war on Germany.
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Chamberlain, who had lost political support, resigned in and died a few months later.
Early Life
Born in Birmingham, England, on March 18, , Arthur Neville Chamberlain served as his country's leader in the years leading up to World War II and the early days of the war itself.
His father, Joseph, was a successful businessman who held several government posts, including as mayor of Birmingham for a time.
Chamberlain had three sisters, Ethel, Ida and Hilda, as well as two older half-siblings, Beatrice and Austen, from his father's first marriage.
He attended the Rugby School and then Mason College (now University of Birmingham). At the age of 21, Ch