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On 3 September 1939, the United Kingdom declared war on Germany—two days after the German invasion of Poland. [1] France also declared war on Germany later the same day.. The state of war was announced to the British public in an 11 AM radio broadcast by the prime minister Neville Chamberlain.
Following the invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, which marked the beginning of the Second World War, Chamberlain announced the declaration of war on Germany two days later and led the United Kingdom through the first eight months of the war until his resignation as prime minister on 10 May 1940.
Chamberlain's response to the war scare was to order full staff talks with France, to issue a public declaration that any German move into the Low Countries would be regarded as grounds for an immediate declaration of war and to order a major expansion to the size of the army, with the idea of peacetime conscription being seriously considered ...
In the early hours of the morning in New Zealand, Governor-General Lord Galway signed the country's declaration of war on Germany and backdated it to 9:30 p.m. the previous night, the equivalent of 11 a.m. on September 3 in England so it would match the time that Chamberlain declared war. [41]
On 3 September 1939, the day Britain declared war on Germany following the outbreak of the Second World War, Chamberlain appointed Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty, the same position he had held at the beginning of the First World War. As such he was a member of Chamberlain's war cabinet.
When in 1939 Hitler continued his aggression, taking over the rest of Czechoslovakia on 15 March 1939 and threatening Poland, Chamberlain pledged to defend Poland's independence if the latter were attacked. Britain and France declared war two days after the Nazi regime had begun to invade Poland on 1 September 1939.
Neville Chamberlain formed the Chamberlain war ministry in 1939 after declaring war on Germany. Chamberlain led the country for the first eight months of the Second World War , until the Norway Debate in Parliament led Chamberlain to resign and Winston Churchill to form a new ministry .
Chamberlain's ongoing manipulation of the BBC caused that news to be largely suppressed. [5] The Labour spokesman Hugh Dalton publicly suggested that the piece of paper that Chamberlain was waving was "torn from the pages of Mein Kampf." [6] Disbelieving Chamberlain, Isaac Asimov published in July 1939 "Trends", which mentions a World War in ...