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| 1939, June |
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| By an agreement signed by Hitler and Mussolini, German inhabitants of the Tyrol were forced to decide whether to stay in the province and accept full Italian citizenship, or migrate to German territory. | 1 |
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| 1943, Nov |
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| At a meeting of foreign ministers in Moscow the Allies agreed on the restoration of an independent Austria after the war. | 2 |
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| 1944, April |
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| Vienna experienced the first significant raid of the war. In subsequent attacks more than 9,000 Viennese were killed. Industrial centers were also severely damaged. | 3 |
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| 1945, April 13 |
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| Vienna fell to the Red Army. | 4 |
| At the end of the war Austrians faced a ruined country. The loss of human life was devastating: 247,000 members of the armed forces were killed or missing or had died in captivity; 29,000 civilians also died. Of the 220,000 Jews in Austria in 1938 only about 5,000 remained in 1946. Finally, the essentials of life, such as food and fuel, were exhausted, and transportation had broken down everywhere. (See Austria) | 5 |
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