Agreed with the above post. They buried their heads in the sand and hoped Hitler would go away, mostly. Then they ignored him furhter when he did not, and at their own peril. However, France did build a large military and an expensive, massive fortification called the Maginot Line that they believed would be impossible to breach. Hitler just "blitzkrieg-ed" around it by going through Belgium.
They also formed an alliance with one another, and wth the Soviet Union. They even practiced brinksmanship - a foreign policy where they threaten war if a certain action is taken, gambling that he will not. They did this after Czechoslovakia was taken, and threatened Hitler with war if he invaded Poland. It's a way of trying to prevent war by threatening war. It worked about as well as appeasement did.
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