The '''Phony War''' or '''Sitzkrieg''' ("Sitting War"), is the term for the time of relative military inactivity on continental Europe after [[Germany]] and the [[Soviet Union]] invaded [[Poland]] in [[World War II]].
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The '''Phony War''' or '''Sitzkrieg''' ("Sitting War"), is the term for the time of relative military inactivity on continental Europe after [[Germany]] and the [[Soviet Union]] divided up [[Poland]] between them in the fall of 1939 and before the [[Fall of France]] and [[Battle of Britain]] in the spring of 1940 in [[World War II]].