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> Literally not one country initiated combat against Nazi Germany before being attacked itself.

Apart from many of the Commonwealth countries?



The UK could have declared war on Mars and the Commonwealth would follow, so you are only talking about Churchill.


Churchill became PM in May 1940, 8 months after the UK declared war on Germany.


The interim period being known as "The Phoney War" for being... well... phoney.

A technical satisfaction of their obligations to Poland and no more.




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