There was no need for ww2

And also France. All three were hanging on to the Treaty of Versailles. Check it out:

http://www.rpfuller.com/gcse/history/6.html

Rather short summaries but they state the facts directly.

That's escaping the point, though.

The time at which the peace deal was serious was after France's fall.

France, btw, has always, with some truth, said that if Versailles was stuck to, then WWII most certainly would not have happened.