It was this territory which retarded the expansion of Germany to the South. Hitler realized that the occupation of Czecholovakia would open up the way for the march of Germans against Russia. Furthermore, the country was a stronghold of the anti-revolutionalists viz. France and Russia and vocally supported the League of Nations.
Nazi Germany could not tolerate all this. Therefore, it started instigating the Sudetan Germans (the German minority in Czecholovakia) to launch violent struggle. In September 1938 the Sudetan Germans rose in revolt against the Czech Government dealt with the rebels firmly and banned the Nazi Party in the country. This greatly offended Hitler and he started sending German forces on the border of Czecholovakia.
In course of time Nazi Germany started adopted more provocative postures and even threatened to go to war with Czecholovakia. In the meanwhile, the British Government offered its private mediation for peaceful settlement of the dispute Chamberlain Sew to Godenberg to confer with Hitler but he was bent upon having a war with Czecholovakia.
On the other hand, the Czecholovakian Government immediately agreed to transfer the Sudetan area to Germany Ultimately, on the advice of Mussolini, Hitler agreed to settle the things amicably. This resulted in the signing of the Munich pact on 29 September 1938.