Arthur Neville Chamberlain

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"Hitler... in all history, no other man has been responsible for such a hideous total of human suffering and misery..." Chamberlain Resignation Speech, 1940

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World War 2, began in Europe on 1 September when Germany invaded Poland. Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany on 3 September. It spread to the Soviet Union, China, Japan and the United States. Cities were destroyed by air raids, the atom bomb was dropped on Japan and six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. It consumed half the world and was the most savage and destructive global conflict in the history of mankind ...and started with a peace agreement!

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Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain will be forever remembered for his 'appeasement policy'. The 1938 Munich Pact was a treaty between Germany, Britain, France and Italy. It handed Hitler the Sudetenland in exchange for no further demands for land in Europe. But Hitler wanted war and marched on, invading the rest of Czechoslovakia and Poland.