Alternate WW2 question

JJohnson

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For the sake of the timeline, let's say the following has occurred:

-Germany's monarchy collapses near the end of WW1, and they sue for peace, gaining a mildly more lenient peace, such that they lose Alsace-Lorraine and North Schleswig, but no other territory. They keep their Kiatschou territory, and Walvis Bay/Namibia so that they can use the trade to pay off the allies and their war debts.
-France is angered at the leniency
-The US does not have Woodrow Wilson or Teddy Roosevelt as President, but another president who prosecuted the war and then brought his troops home and left Europe alone; there is no widespread progressive movement and the country does not gain direct election of senators or prohibition, but does have women voting.
-the US does not endure massive propoganda to the point that Americans of German ancestry 'americanize' their names.
-the depression happens and affects the entire world.
-the Weimar Republic of Germany stabilizes politically, passes a few reforms of its constitution such that you have to get at least 5% of the vote to gain a seat in the Reichstag, and extremist political parties advocating violence get outlawed. The currency stabilizes also.

From there, what could possibly happen in France, Czechoslovakia, and/or Poland to cause one or the three of them to: (1) attack Germany for more territory; (2) ally with Italy and Japan, (3) either ally with or prevent the action of the USSR; (4) draw the UK into a war that escalates into a second world war; (5) possibly involve Colonel François de la Rocque, Philippe Pétain, and/or Charles de Gualle as leaders; (6) a French government featuring a personality cult, oppression of minorities, and attempting to take over Europe? How would France have to evolve so that it goes fascist (via Croix-de-Feu, Mouvement Franciste, or any of the other such groups such that they form a majority and single-party state)? How would such a world war play out? What happens to the aggressors in this version of reality, and how does Germany evolve after the war, territorially, culturally, and politically? How does this France evolve after the war, and what do the allies do to it?
 
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From there, what could possibly happen in France, Czechoslovakia, and/or Poland to cause one or the three of them to: (1) attack Germany for more territory
Answer: form part of an anti-German alliance. Of course if Germany is no threat to Britain then there will be no blockade, which will work to the Germans' advantage as the OTL blockade was an important instrument in German in both World Wars.
 
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