Hitler's regime under the Kaiser was hardly as horrible as the NRP. We must remember that it was France who started the war against Hitler & Wilhelm the 3rd by invading Belgium & German Luxembourg. This, through an interesting turn of events, put Britain on Germany's side.
Though, it seemed to have ignored the Americas, as did Germany, when the British blockaded New York Harbor. Though, I think we can all agree that the peace that followed in 1943 was fair. America regained Northern Maine and a land connection with Alaska.
Damn the Paris-Radical-Socialists. They've given a bad name to all leftist movements active in the world.
Well, you have a point there. Until the anti-Royalist coup in the 3rd year of the Second Great War, Willhelm III's influence did limit the excesses of the Hitler regime for most of its duration. But, there is no question that the anti-Jewish measures undertaken after the coup were at least as inhuman as the Americans' brutal forced deportation of its black inhabitants under the National Resurrection Party. It is no accident former Prime Minister Blair referred to these two powers as the "Devilish Duo".
Of course the French preemptive strike against the German armies reoccupying the Rhineland in 1941 was technically the first shot of GW2, but you seem to be confused regarding who won GW1. Britain and France did. The French moved with permission through Belgium (an allied state) and Luxembourg was already a French protectorate. Read your history books!
The reason for Britain's unexpected declaration of war against France had more to do more with France's attack on Japanese Formosa than anything else. Also, if you don't remember, Britain focused its entire military effort in defense of its loyal Japanese ally and the occupation of Indochina. Even in 1944, just after temporary resumption of hostilities between France and Germany, First Lord of the Admiralty Churchill's proposal for an invasion of France was prompted, not by a desire to defeat France completely, but by a desire to limit German advances east of Paris and ensure the "iron cross curtain" did not include this ancient capital of western Europe. From the US perspective, the one advantage of this British love-hate co-belligerency with Germany with a failure to deploy sufficient armor to Canada to prevent US reoccupation of northern Maine and the annexation of the Pacific coast of British Columbia.