Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"Having successfully incorporated Austria into the German Reich in March 1938, Hitler had started demanding the incorporation of that part of Czechoslovakia that had a majority of German-speaking citizens, the Sudetenland. . . . Without any international support, the Czech government was powerless, and the Germans occupied the Sudetenland without delay. . . . This policy of appeasing the fascist dictatorships was bitterly opposed by Winston Churchill, who was convinced that Britain urgently needed to rearm and confront Hitler and Mussolini." [Furtado: 1001 Days]