It feared that such losses might bring a collapse in civilian ... there was a period of what people called 'phoney war'. Little happened on the Home Front and many found the evacuations, gasmasks ...

Despite a few probes and side campaigns, the Western allies didn’t act as if it was a real war until the invasion of France in May 1940. The British branded those eight months “the Phoney War.” ...

and its people felt loss like never before. Thus, when war loomed once again, the French swore they would be ready for it. Using the time given to them by the so-called Phoney War, the period ...

For the first six months of the war, there was little fighting in the West, as the German military concentrated on their invasion and campaign in Poland. This period is often called the ‘Phoney ...

It feared that such losses might bring a collapse in civilian ... there was a period of what people called 'phoney war'. Little happened on the Home Front and many found the evacuations, gasmasks ...