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Phony war
phony war n 1. (in wartime) a period of apparent calm and inactivity, esp the period at the beginning of World War II 2. (in peacetime) a contrived embattled atmosphere; mock war Phony warThe period from September 1939 to April 1940 during which Britain was officially at war with Germany but no actual fighting took place.
Phony War
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. |