The United States of Greater Austria (German: Vereinigte Staaten von Groß-Österreich) was the successor state to the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy created in the aftermath of the First World War. Greater Austria was the result of compromises between the central governments in Vienna and Budapest and the various nationalities of the old empire between October 1918 and March 1920. The empire came to an end with the Soviet Offensive that ended with the capture of Vienna in 1941. Under the Soviet occupation the empire was divided up into various puppet Communist regimes loyal to Moscow. Finally after World War II in Europe ended the empire was formally partitioned into states loyal to Germany or attached to states that were part of the Axis.