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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.

Phony War

a term widely used for the initial period of World War II, until May 1940, a period during which the governments of France and Great Britain waged no active ground combat operations on the Western Front, even though they had declared war on fascist Germany on Sept. 3, 1939. The Phony War was broken off by the fascist German offensive in the West.

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