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The Soviet occupation of Romania refers [1] to the period from 1944 to August 1958, during which the Soviet Union maintained a significant military presence in Romania. The fate of the territories held by Romania after 1918 that were incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940 is treated separately in the article on Soviet occupation of ...
Romania leased its oil wells to Germany for 90 years. The Central Powers recognized the Union of Bessarabia with Romania; 535,706 Ferdinand I: Ion I. C. Brătianu: Constantin Iancovescu: Vasile Zottu (until Oct. 1916) Dumitru Iliescu (Oct. – Dec. 1916) Constantin Prezan (from Dec. 1916) Victory. Armistice of 11 November 1918; Treaty of Versailles
Romania under communist rule. Iasi: The Center for Romanian Studies. ISBN 978-973-98392-8-0. Gives a detailed account of the events in December 1989 in Timișoara. Engel, Jeffrey A. (2017). When the world seemed new: George H.W. Bush and the end of the Cold War. Boston ; New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-547-42306-7.
This is a timeline of the main events of the Cold War, a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union, its allies in the Warsaw Pact and later the People's Republic of China).
In line with Article 14 of the Armistice Agreement, two Romanian People's Tribunals were set up to try suspected war criminals. [290] Map of Romania after World War II indicating lost territories. As the country declared war on Germany on the night of 23 August 1944, border clashes between Hungarian and Romanian troops erupted almost immediately.
Romania and Czechoslovakia sign a peace treaty in Bucharest. It will be followed by a similar treaty between Romania and Yugoslavia signed it Belgrade one month later. A new land reform takes place, suggested by King Ferdinand I, who wanted to repay the soldiers and their families for sacrifices made during the war [citation needed]. 1922
During the first 3 post-war decades, Romania industrialized faster than Spain, Greece, and Portugal. The infant mortality rate plummeted from 139 per 1,000 during the interwar period to 35 in the 1970s. During the interwar period, half the population was illiterate, but under the communist government illiteracy was eradicated.
After the Allied armistice with Romania (11–12 September 1944), the Red Army had a free run in Romania and the Romanian government did not have authority over Northern Bukovina. In late 1944 and early 1945, some small armed groups were formed in Romania, with a mission of harassing the Red Army in a future war between the Soviets and the West ...