Why were the early months of world war ii referred as the “phony war”?

Early in WWll, soldiers weren't really willing to fight yet, so it was called the phony war. The Germans gave this the name of Sitzkrieg which, when translated, literally means sitting war. On the Eastern border of France, soldiers set up fortifications and just sat staring at German troops who had fortifications set up a few miles away from France.

In the late fifteenth century, a major world power that established colonies in the era of old imperialism was france or germany or spain. their colonial activity was mainly limited to america or africa or asia.