The UK and France still remembered the horrors of trench warfare in WW1 and were trying every other method to keep peace in Europe, instead of war. When Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany. The Munich agreement is a good indicator that England did not want to war.
France put all that money and time into building the Maginot Line to deter Germany from attacking France. Both countries lost millions of men in WW1 and didn't want to repeat it. The scars of that war affected the people to the government.
When they did go to war with Germany, the Maginot line was bypassed through the Ardennes. Germany's blitzkrieg method overwhelmed France and England's armies.
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