Chamberlain, (Arthur) Neville (1869–1940), prime minister

by Andrew J. Crozier

  • Youth
  • Education
  • Business: failure
  • Business: success
  • Emerging local politician
  • Local government and political apprenticeship
  • Director-general of national service, 1916–1917
  • Election to parliament and advance to office, 1918–1923
  • Chamberlain and Baldwin
  • Minister of health, 1924–1929
  • Opposition and the Conservative leadership crisis, 1929–1931
  • Economic crisis
  • Chancellor of the exchequer, 1931–1937: tariffs, reparations, and budgets
  • Becomes prime minister, 1937
  • Appeasement of Nazi Germany and fascist Italy
  • Chamberlain and foreign policy
  • First steps towards a general settlement
  • Chamberlain and Eden, 1937–1938
  • The offer to Germany of a general settlement and the Czechoslovakia crisis, 1938
  • The Munich conference
  • The policy of guarantees, spring and summer 1939
  • Outbreak of war and formation of war cabinet
  • Chamberlain's resignation as prime minister, May 1940
  • Death and reputation

References

See also

Themes

  • Chancellors of the exchequer
  • Leaders of the Conservative and the Conservative and Unionist parties
  • Guilty men
  • Prime ministers of the United Kingdom
  • Ministers and secretaries of state for health

Other online resources

  • Bibliography of British and Irish history
  • Churchill Archive
  • National Portrait Gallery
  • National Register of Archives

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