In what different ways did major countries attempt to deal with international aggression from 1936 to 1941?

Some points:

* France & Britain failed to resist the German reoccupation of the Rhineland * The great powers stayed out of the Spanish Civil War * France & Britain failed to resist the German invasion of Austria * France & Britain attempted to maintain European peace at the Munich Conference

* On 31 march 1939, France & Britain pledged to support Poland against a German attack * Nazi Germany & communist Russia signed a friendship/non-aggression pact in August 1939 * Between August & October of 1940 airmen from Britain, the commonwealth, France and Poland took on the Nazi airforce over the skies of Britian.