Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav communist leader, directs organizing of Albanian communists. Communist Party organizes National Liberation Movement, a popular front resistance organization. Non-communist nationalist groups form to resist the Italian occupation. German forces invade and occupy Albania. Communist Partisans, supplied with British weapons, gain control of southern Albania.
Communist forces enter central and northern Albania.
Communists establish provisional government with Hoxha as prime minister. Germans withdraw from Tirana, communists enter capital. Communist provisional government adopts laws allowing state regulation of commercial enterprises, foreign and domestic trade. Communist regime begins to nationalize industry, transportation, forests, pastures. Elections are held for the People's Assembly.