The Slovak National Uprising broke out on 29 August 1944 and was crushed by German troops that autumn, but the fighting did not stop: partisan groups held out through the winter in the Malá Fatra above the village, and mountain hamlets like Terchová's were the places that fed them. The reckoning came as the Germans pulled back. On the night of 7–8 April 1945 they burned Terchová — 170 houses, most of the village — and some accounts date it a day later, to 8–9 April. Rebuilding took until 1947, and 96 families gave up and moved away to southern Slovakia instead. The parish church of Saints Cyril and Methodius, begun in 1942, was only finished in 1949.Slovenské národné povstanie vypuklo 29. augusta 1944 a nemecké vojská ho na jeseň potlačili, boje sa však neskončili: partizánske skupiny prezimovali v Malej Fatre nad obcou a práve horské osady ako terchovské ich živili. Účet prišiel pri nemeckom ústupe. V noci zo 7. na 8. apríla 1945 Terchovú vypálili — 170 domov, teda väčšinu obce — a niektoré pramene kladú vypálenie o deň neskôr, na 8. a 9. apríla. Obnova trvala do roku 1947 a 96 rodín to vzdalo a odsťahovalo sa na južné Slovensko. Farský kostol svätého Cyrila a Metoda, začatý v roku 1942, dokončili až v roku 1949.
