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Antonescu and Adolf Hitler at the Führerbau in Munich (June 1941).. In the immediate wake of the loss of Northern Transylvania, on 4 September 1940, the Iron Guard (led by Horia Sima) and General (later Marshal) Ion Antonescu united to form the "National Legionary State", which forced the abdication of Carol II in favor of his 19-year-old son Michael.
The major attack of the Battle of Romania – the second Jassy–Kishinev offensive, between 20 August and 29 August – was a Soviet victory. [4] The German Sixth Army was encircled by the initial Soviet onslaught and was destroyed for the second time (the first time was at the Battle of Stalingrad ).
The Romanian expression România Mare (Great or Greater Romania) refers to the Romanian state in the interwar period and to the territory Romania covered at the time. At that time, Romania achieved its greatest territorial extent, almost 300,000 km 2 or 120,000 sq mi [ 265 ] ), including all of the historic Romanian lands.
Romania during World War II: Ion Antonescu: Mircea: Mircea: 1989 1386–1418 Battle of Rovine, Battle of Nicopolis: Mircea cel Batrân, Mehmed I, Vlad III the Impaler: Mircea at IMDb: For the country: Pentru patrie: 1978 1877–1878 Romanian War of Independence: Carol I of Romania: Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man: Portretul luptătorului ...
World War II׃ The Complete History: Matthew Hall: 2001 United Kingdom Horror in the East: Laurence Rees, Martina Balazova: 2001 Japan Japanese Devils: Minoru Matsui: 2001 France Sobibor, Oct. 14, 1943, 4 p.m. Claude Lanzmann: 2001 United States The Color of War: Peter Coyote: 2002 United States A Yiddish World Remembered: Andrew Goldberg: 2002 ...
World War II began in September 1939, and the German victory on the Western Front and the subsequent defeat of France in June 1940 seriously alarmed the King of Romania Carol II. He was convinced that the allies could no longer defend Romania, so he decided that the only way to keep the country together was by relying on Germany.
The canal was the most known labour camp in the history of Romania; 1951: During the night of June 18 the third-largest mass deportation in modern Romanian history takes place. Some 45,000 people are taken from their homes and deported to the Bărăgan plain; 1952
Depiction of Romanian troops storming the Grivitsa redoubt during the Romanian War of Independence, 1877. The military history of Romania deals with conflicts spreading over a period of about 2500 years across the territory of modern Romania, the Balkan Peninsula and Eastern Europe and the role of the Romanian military in conflicts and peacekeeping worldwide.