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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 ...
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 ...
The Battle of Romania in World War II comprised several operations in or around Romania in 1944, as part of the Eastern Front, in which the Soviet Army defeated Axis (German and Romanian) forces in the area, Romania changed sides, and Soviet and Romanian forces drove the Germans back into Hungary
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
Romanian historians claimed that the coup shortened the war by as much as "six months." [8] [page needed] Formal Allied recognition of the de facto change of orientation of Romania in the war came on 12 September 1944. Until this date, Soviet troops started moving into Romania, taking approximately 140,000 Romanian prisoners of war. [9]