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Phony War

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Phony War

(1939–40) Early months of World War II, marked by no major hostilities. The term was coined by journalists to derisively describe the six-month period (October 1939–March 1940) during which no land operations were undertaken by the Allies or the Germans after the German conquest of Poland in September 1939.
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The Nazi conquest of Poland had settled into "the phony war," with neither side doing much of anything.
The greatest convention: in 1940, the contest was never closer, the ... by Peters, Charles / Washington Monthly
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president stages a phony war to shift attention from a personal scandal.
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