Phoney War (Central Victory)

The Phoney War was a phase early in World War II that was marked by a lack of major military operations by the Western Allies against the German Reich. The phase was in the months following Britain and France's declaration of war on Germany (shortly after the Soviet invasion of Ukraine), which Germany declared war on the Soviet Union, in September 1939 and preceding the Battle of France in May 1940. War was declared by each side, but no Western power had committed to launching a significant land offensive, notwithstanding the terms of the Anglo-Soviet military alliance and the Franco-Soviet military alliance, which obliged the United Kingdom and France to assist the Soviet Union.