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1937

May

28
- Neville Chamberlain becomes prime ministerOn 28 May 1937 Baldwin resigned and Neville Chamberlain became prime minister, determined to pacify Europe actively through concessions to Germany and Italy.

1938

September

30
- Key eventThe Munich AgreementOn 29–30 September 1938 Hitler, Chamberlain, Daladier and Mussolini signed in Munich an agreement giving Germany the Sudetenland. Prague was not consulted.

1939

March

31
- Key eventThe British guarantee to PolandOn 31 March 1939 Chamberlain told the Commons that Britain and France would aid Poland if its independence were threatened. Appeasement was over.

July

10
- Chamberlain on DanzigOn 10 July 1939 Chamberlain told the House of Commons that an attempt to seize Danzig threatening Polish independence would trigger the British guarantee.

September

October

1940

April

03
- Churchill heads the Military Coordination CommitteeOn 3 April 1940 Chamberlain accepted Lord Chatfield’s resignation and abolished his ministry. Churchill took the chair of the Military Co-ordination Committee.

May

October

09
- Churchill becomes leader of the Conservative PartyOn 9 October 1940 the Conservatives elected Churchill party leader after the gravely ill Chamberlain, who had left the government on 3 October, stood down.

November

09
- The death of Neville ChamberlainOn 9 November 1940 Neville Chamberlain died of cancer at Heckfield. Churchill paid tribute to him in the Commons; the quarrel over appeasement outlived him.