WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
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klitzkrieg
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burdenkrieg
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sitzkrieg
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Blitzkrieg
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Phoney War was also referred to as the “Twilight War” (by Winston Churchill) and as the Sitzkrieg ("the sitting war": a word play on blitzkrieg created by the British press).
Detailed explanation-2: -Borrowed from German Sitzkrieg (“sitting war”), a pun on Blitzkrieg (literally “lightning war”).
Detailed explanation-3: -The German Blitzkrieg into Poland was, however, soon followed by the Sitzkrieg “phony war” during the winter of 1939-1940. The Sitzkrieg ["sitting war”–the opposite of the Blitzkrieg] or in French drôle de guerre was a waiting period of neither war nor peace.
Detailed explanation-4: -sitzkrieg. / (ˈsɪtsˌkriːɡ, ˈzɪts-) / noun. a period during a war in which both sides change positions very slowly or not at all.