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Neville Chamberlain

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British politician of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940.

Joseph Chamberlain (seated) and Austen Chamberlain, 1892

Chamberlain as Lord Mayor of Birmingham in May 1916, alongside Prime Minister Billy Hughes of Australia.

1929 portrait of Chamberlain by William Orpen

Chamberlain arrives in Munich, September 1938

Chamberlain (centre, hat and umbrella in hands) walks with German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop (right) as the Prime Minister leaves for home after the Berchtesgaden meeting, 16 September 1938. On the left is Alexander von Dörnberg.

Chamberlain (left) and Hitler leave the Bad Godesberg meeting, 23 September 1938.

From left to right, Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini and Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano as they prepare to sign the Munich Agreement

Neville Chamberlain holds the paper signed by both Hitler and himself on his return from Munich to Heston Aerodrome.

David Lloyd George, prime minister 1916–22, whose contempt for Chamberlain was reciprocated

Blue plaque honouring Neville Chamberlain, Edgbaston, Birmingham

Although he still led the Conservative Party, he was succeeded as prime minister by his colleague Winston Churchill.

British Conservative Party politician who dominated the government of the United Kingdom between the world wars, serving as Prime Minister on three occasions, from May 1923 to January 1924, from November 1924 to June 1929, and from June 1935 to May 1937.

Astley Hall near Stourport On Severn, Baldwin's home between 1902 and 1947

W. L. Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada (left) and Baldwin at the Imperial Conference, October 1926

Visit of the Prince of Wales (the future Edward VIII) to Rideau Hall, Ottawa August 1927. Front row: left-right: 2nd, W. L. Mackenzie King; 4th, Viscount Willingdon; 5th, the Prince of Wales; 6th, Prince George; 8th, Baldwin

Baldwin photographed by the American press on board a ship, with his wife and daughter

Worcester Cathedral, grave of the 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley and his wife Lucy, née Ridsdale

Memorial to the 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley near his home, Astley Hall

After winning the 1924 general election, Baldwin formed his second government, which saw important tenures of office by Sir Austen Chamberlain (Foreign Secretary), Winston Churchill (at the Exchequer) and Neville Chamberlain (Health).

Allies of World War II

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International military coalition formed during the Second World War to oppose the Axis powers, led by Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy.

The Allied leaders of the European theatre (left to right): Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting at the Tehran Conference in 1943

The Allied leaders of the Asian and Pacific Theater: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill meeting at the Cairo Conference in 1943

Wartime poster for the United Nations, created in 1941 by the U.S. Office of War Information

Wartime poster for the United Nations, created in 1943 by the U.S. Office of War Information

British Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft (bottom) flying past a German Heinkel He 111 bomber aircraft (top) during the Battle of Britain in 1940

British Crusader tanks during the North African Campaign

British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal under attack from Italian aircraft during the Battle of Cape Spartivento (27 Nov 1940)

British soldiers of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in Elst, Netherlands on 2 March 1945

Free French forces at the Battle of Bir Hakeim, 1942

FAFL Free French GC II/5 "LaFayette" receiving ex-USAAF Curtiss P-40 fighters at Casablanca, French Morocco

The French fleet scuttled itself rather than fall into the hands of the Axis after their invasion of Vichy France on 11 November 1942.

The fall of Damascus to the Allies, late June 1941. A car carrying Free French commanders General Georges Catroux and General Paul Louis Le Gentilhomme enters the city, escorted by French Circassian cavalry (Gardes Tcherkess).

Soviet soldiers and T-34 tanks advancing near Bryansk in 1942

Soviet soldiers fighting in the ruins of Stalingrad during the Battle of Stalingrad

Soviet Il-2 ground attack aircraft attacking German ground forces during the Battle of Kursk, 1943

American Douglas SBD Dauntless dive-bomber aircraft attacking the Japanese cruiser Mikuma during the Battle of Midway in June 1942

U.S. Marines during the Guadalcanal Campaign in November 1942

American Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft during the bombing of oil refineries in Ploiești, Romania on 1 August 1943 during Operation Tidal Wave

U.S. soldiers departing landing craft during the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 known as D-Day

Philippine Scouts at Fort William McKinley firing a 37 mm anti-tank gun in training

Soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army associated with Nationalist China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War

Soldiers of the First Workers' and Peasants' Army associated with Communist China, during the Sino-Japanese War

Victorious Chinese Communist soldiers holding the flag of the Republic of China during the Hundred Regiments Offensive

Members of the Belgian Resistance with a Canadian soldier in Bruges, September 1944 during the Battle of the Scheldt

Norwegian soldiers on the Narvik front, May 1940

Pilots of the No. 303 "Kościuszko" Polish Fighter Squadron during the Battle of Britain

Polish partisan of the Home Army (AK), "Jędrusie" unit, holding a Browning wz.1928 light machine gun

Partisans and Chetniks escorting captured Germans through Užice, autumn 1941

Partisan leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito with Winston Churchill in 1944

Chetniks leader General Mihailovic with members of the U.S. military mission, Operation Halyard, 1944

Romanian soldiers in Transylvania, September–October 1944

The dead bodies of Benito Mussolini, his mistress Clara Petacci, and several Fascist leaders, hanging for public display after they were executed by Italian partisans in 1945

The first version of the flag of the United Nations, introduced in April 1945

A British poster from 1941, promoting the greater alliance against Germany

U.S. government poster showing a friendly Soviet soldier, 1942

The following August saw the Atlantic Conference between American President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, which defined a common Anglo-American vision of the postwar world, as formalized by the Atlantic Charter.

Clement Attlee

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British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.

Attlee (seen in the centre) in 1916, aged 33, whilst serving in Mesopotamia.

Attlee as Lord Privy Seal, visiting a munitions factory in 1941

Attlee meeting King George VI following Labour's 1945 election victory

Attlee at opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London, 1948

Trafford General Hospital, known as the birthplace of the NHS

Attlee with Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, 1945

Attlee shaking hands with US Secretary of State James F. Byrnes upon his arrival at National Airport in Washington, 1945

Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin (left) with Attlee in 1945

VE Day celebrations in British-controlled Jerusalem (1945)

Statue of Attlee in its former position outside Limehouse Library

Blue plaque erected in 1984 by Greater London Council at 17 Monkhams Avenue

The Statue of Clement Attlee in its new position at Queen Mary University of London

He was Deputy Prime Minister during the wartime coalition government under Winston Churchill, and served twice as Leader of the Opposition from 1935 to 1940 and from 1951 to 1955.

Liberal Party (UK)

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One of the two major political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Conservative Party, in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Liberal politicians David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill enacted the 1909 People's Budget which specifically aimed at the redistribution of wealth.

Liberal poster c. 1905–1910, clockwise from the left: Joseph Chamberlain (satirised as an unmarried mother leaving her baby at a Foundling hospital) abandons his commitment to old age pensions; Chancellor Austen Chamberlain threatens duties on consumer items which had been removed by Gladstone (in the picture on the wall); Chinese indentured labour in South Africa; John Bull contemplates his vote; and Joseph Chamberlain and Arthur Balfour (who favoured retaliatory tariffs) wearing top hats. The heading "ratepayers money for sectarian schools" refers to the Education Act 1902.

Cartoonist John Bernard Partridge depicts Lloyd George as a giant with a cudgel labelled "Budget" in reference to his People's Budget while "a plutocrat" cowers beneath the table, Punch 28 April 1909. The caption, not shown, reads "Fee Fi Fo Phat, I smell the blood of a plutocrat. Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread,"

$Share of the vote received by Conservatives (blue), Whigs/Liberals/Liberal Democrats (orange), Labour (red) and others (grey) in general elections since 1832 shows that following success as the successor to the Whig party, the party's share of the popular vote plummeted after the First World War as it lost votes to the new Labour party and fractured into groups such as the National and Coalition Liberals$

A crowd waits outside Leeds Town Hall to see them elect a Liberal Party candidate during the 1880 general elections.

Leeds and County Liberal Club blue plaque

Winston Churchill authored Liberalism and the Social Problem (1909), praised by Henry William Massingham as "an impressive and convincing argument" and widely considered as the movement’s bible.

David Lloyd George

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922.

Lloyd George and Winston Churchill in 1907

Portrait of Chancellor Lloyd George by Christopher Williams (1911)

Lloyd George, Edward Grey, Herbert Kitchener, Nikola Pašić, Antonio Salandra, Alexander Izvolsky, Aristide Briand, Joseph Joffre at a conference of the Allied Powers on 27–28 March 1916 in Paris

Snowed under
St. Bernard Pup (to his Master). "This situation appeals to my hereditary instincts. Shall I come to the rescue?"
[Before leaving Switzerland Mr. Lloyd George purchased a St. Bernard pup.]
Cartoon from Punch 15 September 1920

Georges Clemenceau, David Lloyd George and Vittorio Orlando at Paris

"The Big Four" made all the major decisions at the Paris Peace Conference (from left to right, Lloyd George, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy, Georges Clemenceau of France, Woodrow Wilson of the U.S.)

Lloyd George with Japanese Prince Hirohito, 1921

Portrait of David Lloyd George by Hal Hurst, 1915

Lloyd George statue at Caernarfon Castle (1921), in recognition of his service as local MP and prime minister

Vera Weizmann, Chaim Weizmann, Herbert Samuel, Lloyd George, Ethel Snowden, and Philip Snowden

Grave of David Lloyd George, Llanystumdwy

Lloyd George with his daughter Megan in 1911

Removing the First Sea Lord Admiral Jellicoe earlier in 1917, as Lloyd George wanted, would have been politically impossible given Conservative anger at the return of Churchill (still blamed for the Dardanelles) to office as Minister of Munitions in July, and Lloyd George's preoccupations with Passchendaele, Caporetto and the Supreme War Council from July onward.

Allied troops in Vladivostok, August 1918, during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War

Cold War

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Period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, which began following World War II.

The "Big Three" at the Yalta Conference: Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, 1945

Post-war Allied occupation zones in Germany

Clement Attlee, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, 1945

Post-war territorial changes in Europe and the formation of the Eastern Bloc, the so-called "Iron Curtain"

Remains of the "Iron Curtain" in the Czech Republic

C-47s unloading at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin during the Berlin Blockade

President Truman signs the North Atlantic Treaty with guests in the Oval Office.

Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin in Moscow, December 1949

General Douglas MacArthur, UN Command CiC (seated), observes the naval shelling of Incheon, Korea from USS Mt. McKinley, 15 September 1950

US Marines engaged in street fighting during the liberation of Seoul, September 1950

NATO and Warsaw Pact troop strengths in Europe in 1959

From left to right: Soviet head of state Kliment Voroshilov, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and Finnish president Urho Kekkonen at Moscow in 1960.

The maximum territorial extent of Soviet influence, after the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and before the official Sino-Soviet split of 1961

Western colonial empires in Asia and Africa all collapsed in the years after 1945.

1961 Soviet stamp commemorating Patrice Lumumba, assassinated prime minister of the Republic of the Congo

The United States reached the Moon in 1969.

Che Guevara (left) and Fidel Castro (right) in 1961

Soviet and American tanks face each other at Checkpoint Charlie during the Berlin Crisis of 1961.

Aerial photograph of a Soviet missile site in Cuba, taken by a US spy aircraft, 1 November 1962

NATO and Warsaw Pact troop strengths in Europe in 1973

US combat operations during the Battle of Ia Drang, South Vietnam, November 1965

A manifestation of the Finlandization period: in April 1970, a Finnish stamp was issued in honor of the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin's birth and the Lenin Symposium held in Tampere. The stamp was the first Finnish stamp issued about a foreign person.

The invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968 was one of the biggest military operations on European soil since World War II.

Suharto of Indonesia attending funeral of five generals slain in 30 September Movement, 2 October 1965

Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat with Henry Kissinger in 1975

Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet shaking hands with Henry Kissinger in 1976

Cuban tank in the streets of Luanda, Angola, 1976

During the Khmer Rouge regime led by Pol Pot, 1.5 to 2 million people died due to the policies of his four-year premiership.

Mao Zedong and US President Richard Nixon, during his visit in China

Leonid Brezhnev and Jimmy Carter sign the SALT II treaty, 18 June 1979, in Vienna

Iranian people protesting against the Pahlavi dynasty, during the Iranian Revolution

Protest in Amsterdam against the deployment of Pershing II missiles in Europe, 1981

The Soviet invasion during Operation Storm-333 on 26 December 1979

President Reagan publicizes his support by meeting with Afghan mujahideen leaders in the White House, 1983.

President Reagan with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during a working luncheon at Camp David, December 1984

The world map of military alliances in 1980

US and USSR/Russian nuclear weapons stockpiles, 1945–2006

Delta 183 launch vehicle lifts off, carrying the Strategic Defense Initiative sensor experiment "Delta Star".

After ten-year-old American Samantha Smith wrote a letter to Yuri Andropov expressing her fear of nuclear war, Andropov invited Smith to the Soviet Union.

Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan sign the INF Treaty at the White House, 1987.

The beginning of the 1990s brought a thaw in relations between the superpowers.

"Tear down this wall!" speech: Reagan speaking in front of the Brandenburg Gate, 12 June 1987

Otto von Habsburg, who played a leading role in opening the Iron Curtain.

Erich Honecker lost control in August 1989.

The human chain in Lithuania during the Baltic Way, 23 August 1989

Changes in national boundaries after the end of the Cold War

Since the end of the Cold War, the EU has expanded eastwards into the former Warsaw Pact and parts of the former Soviet Union.

A map showing the relations of Marxist–Leninist states after the Sino-Soviet split as of 1980:
The USSR and pro-Soviet socialist states
China and pro-Chinese socialist states
Neutral Socialist nations (North Korea and Yugoslavia)
Non-socialist states

This policy was spearheaded by Minister of War Winston Churchill, a committed British imperialist and anti-communist.

H. H. Asquith

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British statesman and Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.

Asquith (left) with his sister Emily and elder brother William, c. 1857

Asquith, caricatured by Spy, in Vanity Fair, 1891

Margot Asquith at about the time of her marriage

Campbell-Bannerman, Liberal leader from 1899

Asquith as Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the House of Commons

This 1909 Punch cartoon suggests the Liberals were delighted when the Lords forced an election. Back row: Haldane, Churchill with arms up, being hugged by his ally Lloyd George. Asquith standing at right. Bottom row: McKenna, Lord Crewe (with moustache), Augustine Birrell leaning back

Asquith caricatured in Vanity Fair, 1910

Punch 1911 cartoon shows Asquith and Lloyd George preparing coronets for 500 new peers

Samuel Begg's depiction of the passing of the Parliament Bill in the House of Lords, 1911

Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force march through Belfast, 1914

Asquith visits the front during the Battle of the Somme, 1916

Asquith's great-granddaughter, the actress Helena Bonham Carter

Blue plaque, 20 Cavendish Square, London

Winston Churchill succeeded Lloyd George as President of the Board of Trade, entering the Cabinet despite his youth (aged 33) and the fact that he had crossed the floor to become a Liberal only four years previously.

Conservative Party (UK)

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One of two main political parties in the United Kingdom, alongside its primary rival since the 1930s, the Labour Party.

Robert Peel, twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and founder of the Conservative Party

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, served as the first Conservative Secretary of State.

Winston Churchill, who was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1929 Conservative poster attacking the Labour Party

Harold Macmillan is closely associated with the post-war settlement.

Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970–1974)

Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979–1990)

John Major, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1990–1997)

Rail modal share (rail's share of total travel), 1952–2015

David Cameron, Prime Minister (2010–2016)

Prime Minister Theresa May, right, with U.S. President Donald Trump, left, at a joint press conference in 2019

Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2019–present)

Conservative Party supporters at Pride London in 2010

Margaret Thatcher (second left), Ronald Reagan (far left) and their respective spouses in 1988. Thatcher and Reagan developed a close relationship against the Soviet Union.

The National Conservative Convention is held during the Conservative Party Conference.

Share of the vote received by Conservatives (blue), Whigs/Liberals/Liberal Democrats (orange), Labour (red) and others (grey) in general elections since 1832

In May 1940, a more balanced coalition was formed, the National Government, which, under the leadership of Winston Churchill, saw the United Kingdom through World War II.

Labour Party (UK)

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Political party in the United Kingdom that has been described as an alliance of social democrats, democratic socialists and trade unionists.

Keir Hardie, one of the Labour Party's founders and its first leader

Labour Party plaque from Caroone House, 14 Farringdon Street

Ramsay MacDonald, first Labour Prime Minister (1924 and 1929–1931)

Clement Attlee, Prime Minister (1945–1951)

Harold Wilson, Prime Minister (1964–1970 and 1974–1976)

James Callaghan, Prime Minister (1976–1979)

Michael Foot, Leader of the Opposition (1980–1983)

Neil Kinnock, Leader of the Opposition (1983–1992)

Gordon Brown, Prime Minister (2007–2010)

Keir Starmer, Leader of the Opposition (2020–present)

The red flag, originally the official flag and symbol of the Labour Party

A graph showing Labour Party individual membership, excluding affiliated members and supporters

Unite the Union showing their support for the Labour party on their Leeds offices during the 2015 general election

A graph showing the percentage of the popular vote received by major parties in general elections (1832–2005)

When Neville Chamberlain resigned in the spring of 1940, incoming Prime Minister Winston Churchill decided to bring the other main parties into a coalition similar to that of the First World War.

A report on Winston Churchill

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Neville Chamberlain

Stanley Baldwin

Allies of World War II

Clement Attlee

Liberal Party (UK)

David Lloyd George

Cold War

H. H. Asquith

Conservative Party (UK)

Labour Party (UK)