In World War II the Third Reich invaded the Alpine countries, with the exception of Switzerland and Lichtenstein ; Adolf Hitler kept a base of operation in the Bavarian Alps throughout the war.

One of his most famous achievements was at the outbreak of the Second Punic War, when he marched an army, which included war elephants, from Iberia over the Pyrenees and the Alps into northern Italy.

Historical events, which led to the defeat of Carthage during the First Punic War when his father commanded the Carthaginian Army, led Hannibal to plan the invasion of Italy by land across the Alps.

* 1940 – World War II: Axis Powers – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.

Depiction of Hannibal and his army crossing the Alps during the Second Punic War.

The Second Punic War ( 218 BCE – 201 BCE ) is most remembered for the Carthaginian Hannibal's crossing of the Alps.

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His family moved to the remote Bavarian village of Sachrang ( nestled in the Chiemgau Alps ), after the house next to theirs was destroyed during a bombing raid at the close of World War II.

* April 26 – Austro-Sardinian War: Giuseppe Garibaldi's Hunters of the Alps confront Austrian forces led by Field Marshal-Lieutenant Carl Baron Urban at Varese.

Hannibal Crosses the Alps during the Second Punic War

It hosted the Alpine World Ski Championships in 1939, the first outside the Alps and the last official world championships prior to World War II.

During World War II, at the Battle of the Alps, the Nazi invasion was stopped near Grenoble at Voreppe by the forces of General Cartier in June 1940.

During World War I, an estimated 40, 000 to 80, 000 soldiers died as a result of avalanches during the mountain campaign in the Alps at the Austrian-Italian front, many of which were caused by artillery fire.

Following World War I and the demise of Austria-Hungary, there were important territorial changes in the Eastern Alps.

After World War II, the Alps entered a new phase.

Spruce Forest Artisan Village, a part of the extended Penn Alps campus, has grown from a few cabins to some 12 log and frame structures of early vintage, two of which date to the Revolutionary War Period.

Shortly after the start of the Second Punic War, the Carthaginian general Hannibal boldly crossed into Italy by traversing the Alps during the winter.

After serving in the Tyrolian Alps in World War I, Zangara did a variety of menial jobs in his home village before emigrating with his uncle to the United States in 1923.

During the Second Punic War, for example, Hannibal diverted his army to conquer cities simply to gather supplies ; his strategy in crossing the Alps necessitated traveling with as few provisions as possible, expecting the Roman stores to sustain them when they had breached the border.

The Celtiberians were the most influential ethnic group in pre-Roman Iberia, but they had their largest impact on history during the Second Punic War, during which they became the ( perhaps unwilling ) allies of Carthage in its conflict with Rome, and crossed the Alps in the mixed forces under Hannibal's command.

The novel ranges over the whole of British society before the time of the First World War and eventually ends high up in the snows of the Tyrolean Alps.

Between the Alps and a Hard Place: Switzerland in World War II and Moral Blackmail Today Washington, D. C .: Regnery, 2000.

The Hunters of the Alps () were a special military corps created by Giuseppe Garibaldi in Cuneo on February 20, 1859 to help the regular Sardinian army to free the northern part of Italy in the Second Italian War of Independence.

# The Second Punic War is famous for Hannibal's crossing of the Alps and was fought between 218 BC and 202 BC.

From the American Civil War until World War II, Alabama, like many Southern states, suffered economic hardship, in part because of continued dependence on agriculture.

During the post-World War I period ski-lifts were built in Swiss and Austrian towns to accommodate winter visitors, but summer tourism continued to be important ; by the mid-20th century the popularity of downhill skiing increased greatly as it became more accessible and in the 1970s several new villages were built in France devoted almost exclusively to skiing, such a Les Menuires.

This continued with the influx of American military personnel in World War II as well as film ; seen in the enduring persistence of okay, you guys and gee.

In the 1960s, the ACLU continued its decades-long effort to enforce separation of church and state, and it also defended several anti-war activists during the Vietnam War who burnt draft cards or wore armbands.

War with the Persians continued.

The development of the AFV continued into World War I, when the tracked tank was introduced on the Western Front-a machine that was armoured because it was specifically designed to be fired upon.

World War two saw the beginning of the widespread use of high speed bombers which dispensed with defensive weapons to be able to attain higher speed, such as with the de Havilland Mosquito, a philosophy that continued with many Cold War bombers.

American colonists and European forces continued using disciplined lines, continuing into the American Civil War.

The research continued throughout World War I until 1919, when the now avirulent bacilli were unable to cause tuberculosis disease in research animals.

Potter continued creating her little books until after the First World War when her energies were increasingly directed toward her farming, sheep-breeding and land conservation.

The Peraltas ' Rancho San Antonio continued after Alta California passed from Spanish to Mexican sovereignty after the Mexican War of Independence.

After the end of the Second World War, the British Army was significantly reduced in size, although National Service continued until 1960.

The " Blues " continued to perform nationwide until the start of the Korean War in 1950, when ( due to a shortage of pilots, and no planes were available ) the team was disbanded and its members were ordered to combat duty.

Bovril continued to function as a " war food " in World War I and was frequently mentioned in the 1930 account Not So Quiet ... Stepdaughters of War by Helen Zenna Smith ( Evadne Price ).

He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I. Chaplin used mime, slapstick and other visual comedy routines, and continued well into the era of the talkies, though his films decreased in frequency from the end of the 1920s.

Military collaboration began during World War II and continued throughout the Cold War on both a bilateral basis through NORAD and through multilateral participation in NATO.

The continued hostility between the Communists on the mainland and the Nationalists on Taiwan continued throughout the Cold War.

After World War II, Conservative Judaism continued to thrive.

From the mid-1960s, the anti-war movement's preoccupation with the Vietnam War tended to eclipse concern about nuclear weapons but CND continued to campaign against them.

The continued dominance of the CPC, as with the parties of the last communist states ( all in Asia and Latin America ), can be attributed in part to its anti-colonial and " national liberation " credentials, burnished by its participation in events such as the Anti-Japanese War and the Korean War.