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Also Known As Arthur Neville Chamberlain
Born March 18, 1869 ā€¢ Birmingham ā€¢ England
Died November 9, 1940 (aged 71) ā€¢ near Reading ā€¢ England
Title / Office prime minister (1937-1940), United Kingdom ā€¢ Chancellor of the Exchequer (1931-1937), United Kingdom ā€¢ Chancellor of the Exchequer (1923-1924), United Kingdom ā€¢ House of Commons (1918-1940), United Kingdom
Political Affiliation Conservative Party
Role In Munich Agreement ā€¢ World War II

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Neville Chamberlain, Edouard Daladier, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini stand in a formal room with other officials during the Munich Agreement negotiations in Munich, Germany.
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Sir Samuel Hoare, 2nd Baronet.
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British prime minister Winston Churchill
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Frederick Edgeworth Morgan, the British officer who drew up the original plan for Operation Overlord, the invasion of Normandy.
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Pierre Laval.
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Andrew Browne Cunningham, first sea lord and chief of naval staff in the Royal Navy, 1943ā€“46.
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Miles Dempsey, commander of the British Second Army during World War II.
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Bertram Home Ramsay, naval commander in chief of Operation Overlord, the Normandy Invasion.
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