Romania WW1
World War I was said to be inevitable. For years there was controversy and quarrels between European countries. On June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo Gavrilo Princip, a young Serb belonging to the secret society of the Black Hand shot and assassinated Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. The killer was a Serbian. So Austria-Hungary decided to use the murder as an excuse to teach Serbia a lesson with help from its ally Germany. This was now the begging of World War I. Soon countries were forced to pick a side in which to side with. Romania before World War I asserted its independence well and tried to expand its borders. A couple years before the war they had confrontations with Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece over land in the Balkan Wars. In doing so they got aid from the Ottomans
In the end a total 333,706 men died out of a total of 750,000 from the war. Weather the deaths were worth it; Romania emerged from the war having almost doubled its area and population. . They won some areas such as Soslistra and other areas of Dibruja. During the peace conference on January 18, 1919 Romania discussed the land that was soon to be owned. The Allies promised Romania the Banat, a fertile agricultural region bounded by the Tisza , Mures, and Danube rivers and other land such as the Crisana-Maramures region from Hungary, Bukovina from Austria, and Bessarabia from Russia. With the wait and see policy in effect an imaginable thing happened King Charles, of Romania died in October 1914. If it had not been for the war, Romanians would have grieved for the end of his forty eight-
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Approximate Word count = 539
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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