Neville Chamberlain Biography and Timeline — Page 6

Alliance Neville Chamberlain and Poland in the event of an attack

Warns Hitler Britain will support Poland in the event of an attack

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1937-1940

Military Training Announcement

Announces compulsory military training as Britain accelerates preparation for a possible European war after the collapse of the Munich settlement.

Conscription

Conscription is introduced

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1937-1940

Mobilization

Conscription is introduced

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1937-1940

Hitler denounces Germany's non-aggression pact with Poland

Hitler denounces Germany's non-aggression pact with Poland. Hitler accuses Britain of "encirclement"

Role range: 1937-1940 – 1937-1940

Mobilization

Conscription is created for 6 months service for men aged 20

Role range: 1937-1940 – 1937-1940

Reform of Armed Forces

Conscription is created for 6 months service for men aged 20

Role range: 1937-1940 – 1937-1940

Alliance Neville Chamberlain and Poland providing for reciprocal guarantees

An alliance is signed with Poland providing for reciprocal guarantees

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1937-1940

Resignation of Neville Chamberlain

Appeals for unity and invites Greenwood and Attlee to join a coalition government with him as Prime Minister

Role range: 1937-1940 – 1937-1940

Alliance Agreement with France & Britain

Russia offers a tripartite alliance with France & Britain

Role range: 1937-1940 – 1937-1940

Alliance Russia and France and Britain

Russia offers a tripartite alliance with France & Britain

Role range: 1937-1940 – 1937-1940

Crisis

Calls an emergency Cabinet meeting on the Danzig crisis & threat to peace

Role range: 1937-1940 – 1937-1940

Reform of Emergency Powers

Gives full authority of the law to the "defense regulations" issued by the Government

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1937-1940

Alliance Great Britain and Poland

After Germany's pact with Russia Britain completes the Anglo-Polish Defence Alliance

Role range: 1937-1940 – 1937-1940

Prime Minister of Great Britain

Asks Churchill to join the Cabinet as First Lord of the Admiralty

Role range: 1937-1940 – 1937-1940

Invasion of Poland

Demands Hitler halt his Invasion of Poland

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1937-1940

Legislation

Parliament passes the National Services (Armed Forces) Act

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1937-1940

Armament

Parliament passes the National Services (Armed Forces) Act

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1937-1940

Declaration of War on Germany

Announces that Britain is at war with Germany after Germany invades Poland and fails to meet the British ultimatum.

Declaration of War

Declares war on Germany, at 11 AM

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1937-1940

Supreme War Council

Attends the first Anglo-French Supreme War Council meeting.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1937-1940

Supreme War Council

Meets Daladier at the first Anglo-French Supreme War Council.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1937-1940

Hitler triumphantly enters Danzig & offers concilliation with France & Britain

Hitler triumphantly enters Danzig & offers concilliation with France & Britain

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1937-1940

Invasion of Poland

Hitler triumphantly enters Danzig & offers concilliation with France & Britain

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1937-1940

Graf Spee

The Admiral Graf Spee sinks the steamship Clement

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1937-1940

Sinking of SS Clement - Graf Spee Commerce Raid

Clement became Admiral Graf Spee's first wartime merchant victim when the German raider sank her southeast of Pernambuco on 30 September 1939.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1937-1940

Sinking of SS Clement

The Admiral Graf Spee sinks the steamship Clement

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1937-1940

Hitler's offers of peace to France & Britain are rejected

Hitler's offers of peace to France & Britain are rejected

Role range: 1937-1940 – 1937-1940

Chamberlain dismisses Hitler's offer of peace

Chamberlain dismisses Hitler's offer of peace

Role range: 1937-1940 – 1937-1940

Sinking of HMS Royal Oak - Heavy Casualties

Royal Oak lost 835 officers and men after U-47 penetrated Scapa Flow and torpedoed the battleship during the night.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1937-1940

Sinking of HMS Royal Oak

A U-47 penetrates the British anchorage & sinks the Royal Oak

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1937-1940

Bombing of Firth of Forth

1st air attack on British territory

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Pact between Turkey, France and Great Britain

A pact of mutual assistance is signed between Turkey, France & Britain

Role range: 1937-1940 – 1937-1940

Supreme War Council

Meets French leaders as the Allies debate bombing the Ruhr.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1937-1940

Supreme War Council

Continues Anglo-French strategic discussions during the Phoney War.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1937-1940

Alliance Agreement with France & Britain

Russia offers a tripartite alliance with France & Britain. Visits Rome to prise Italy from the Axis, invited by Mussolini to pressurise France. Signs an agreement with Turkey. Signs an agreement with Poland

Role range: 1937-1940 – 1937-1940

International Agreement at London

A coal agreement is signed with Germany & a team of negotiators visits Britain

Role range: 1937-1940 – 1937-1940

Declaration of War Statement

Chamberlain's Commons statement following Germany's invasion of Poland entered the parliamentary record at the outset of the Second World War.

Iron Ore Debate

The War Cabinet debates action against German iron ore supplies moving through Narvik.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1937-1940

Narvik Operation Plan

War Cabinet reviews possible action against German iron ore moving through Narvik.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1937-1940