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Map of Romania after World War II indicating lost territories. Under the 1947 Treaty of Paris, [40] the Allies did not acknowledge Romania as a co-belligerent nation but instead applied the term "ally of Hitlerite Germany" to all recipients of the treaty's stipulations. Like Finland, Romania had to pay $300 million to the Soviet Union as war ...
Great Romania (1920–1940) Before World War I, the union of Michael the Brave, who ruled over the three principalities with Romanian population (Wallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia) for a short period of time, [221] was viewed in later periods as the precursor of a modern Romania, a thesis which was argued with noted intensity by Nicolae ...
In addition to close historical and cultural ties, Romania is one of the most consistently pro-American nations in Europe and in the world. According to a 2018 European poll, 78% of Romanians view the United States favorably. This is the second-highest pro-American sentiment in the EU, after Poland. [2]
This is a timeline of Romanian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Romania and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Romania .
Romania declared war on the British Empire on 6 December 1941 and on the United States on 12 December. The British returned the war declaration that December. The following summer, June 4, 1942 the United States Congress passed joint resolutions declaring war on Romania along with Hungary and Bulgaria., [2] Two American allies, Nicaragua and Haiti, declared war on Romania on 19 and 24 December ...
Romania lost a third of its territory (99,790 km 2, 38,530 sq mi) and population (6,161,317 inhabitants). [31] Carol II thus lost all his prestige, and upon reflection, he chose General Ion Antonescu to rule the country. He was an authoritarian nationalist with links to the Iron Guard who did not even favor Germany. He demanded the abdication ...
Romania achieved its greatest territorial extent, expanding from the pre-war 137,000 to 295,000 km 2 (53,000 to 114,000 sq mi). [125] A new electoral system granted voting rights to all adult male citizens, and a series of radical agrarian reforms transformed the country into a "nation of small landowners" between 1918 and 1921. [126]
Romania lost again Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, to USSR, back to the border of 1940; Second Vienna Award was annulled (Romania re-gained control of Northern Transylvania, lost to Hungary in 1940) Bulgaria kept control of Southern Dobruja, as of 1940; Communist regime installed in Romania; 300,000 soldiers dead