Encyclopedias: Spartacus Educational: Prime Ministers: Neville Chamberlain

Description: Successful businessman before entering Parliament in 1918. Became cabinet minister and succeeded Baldwin as Conservative prime minister in 1937. Advocated foreign policy of appeasement and signed the Munich Agreement in 1938, which transferred to Germany the Sudetenland. Replaced in office in 1940 by Winston Churchill. (1869-1940)