How Did Adolf Hitler Respond To The Destruction Of Sudetenlands

Having occupied Austria in March 1938, Adolf Hitler turned his attention to the ethnically German Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. Since its formation at the end of World War I, Czechoslovakia had been wary of possible German advances. This was largely due to unrest in the Sudetenland which was fomented by the Sudeten German Party. Formed in 1931 and led by Konrad Henlein, the party worked to bring the region under German control. Though not recognized by the Czechoslovak government, it was strongly supported among Sudeten Germans.
The loss of the Sudetenland was strongly opposed by the Czechoslovak government as the region contained a vast array of natural resources, as well as a significant amount of the nation's industry and banks. In addition, as Czechoslovakia was a polyglot country, there were concerns about other minorities seeking independence. Long concerned about German intentions, the Czechoslovaks had constructed the bulk of their border defenses in the mountains of the Sudetenland.
In September 1938, after signing away the Czech border regions, known as the Sudetenland, to Germany at the Munich conference, British and French leaders pressured France's ally, Czechoslovakia, to yield to Germany's demand for the incorporation of those regions. Despite Anglo-French guarantees of the integrity of rump Czechoslovakia, the Germans dismembered the Czechoslovak state in March 1939 in violation of the Munich agreement. Britain and France responded by guaranteeing the integrity of the Polish state. Hitler responded by negotiating a nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union in the summer of 1939. The German-Soviet Pact of August 1939, which stated that Poland was to be partitioned between the two powers, enabled Germany to attack Poland without the fear of Soviet