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Churchill still lived in his own house,was still a member of parliament in the Hose of Commons. For ten years - from 1929 until 1939 - Churchill had no influence on the British (or on the world) history. He was not an anti-fascist, but he was also not a fascist. And he wasn´t, although everybody in Germany think so, against Germany.
On 30th January 1933, Hitler became the chancellor of the German state, the Reich. As Churchill had warned, Germany began to make a large amount of military equipment.
Under the dictator′s leadership, the German forces soon began to claim the Rhineland, the Ruhr and Saar coalfields, Austria and the Sudeten lands the northern and western borders of Czechoslovakia. It was when Hitler′s forces were placed along the Czechoslovakian border in September 1938, that the British prime minister -now Chamberlain - went to Munich in a try to prevent war. To prevent war was the policity of Chamberlain.
Mr. Chamberlain discussed with Adolf Hitler, Mussolini of Italy, and Daladier of France. They all signed the Munich Agreement. In this document, Hitler promised not to overstep the boundaries of other countries. But Churchill did not believe Hitler. Churchill was very good in understanding other politicians, and he had seen trough Hitler. Winston Churchill was right. The Munich Agreement was broken in 1939, when Hitler claimed control of the whole Czechoslovakia. Hitler marched on, and when his troops entered Poland on September 1, 1939, England and France declared war on Germany.
After that Churchill was quickly recalled, as first lord of the admiralty. The signal went round the fleet, \"Winston is back,\" a quarter of a century after his first going to the post. For Churchill it was a dream came true. Now it was his briliant task to speak for England - old England, all England, his England - this was "living history", as he had said to Margot Asquith a quarter of a century ago. History was to live again.
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