Romania during World War I | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-15

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00:02:30 1 Before the war
00:09:09 1.1 Romanian armaments industry
00:10:05 2 Romanians in the Austro-Hungarian Army
00:12:09 3 Course of the Romanian campaign
00:17:56 3.1 The counteroffensive of the Central Powers
00:32:22 3.2 Romanian recovery
00:38:58 3.3 1917 campaign and armistice
00:47:47 4 Aftermath
00:47:56 4.1 Treaty of Bucharest
00:48:53 4.2 Romania reenters the war, November 1918
00:51:10 5 Military analysis of the campaign
00:53:49 6 See also



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The Kingdom of Romania was neutral for the first two years of World War I, entering on the side of the Allied powers from 27 August 1916 until Central Power occupation led to the Treaty of Bucharest in May 1918, before reentering the war on 10 November 1918.
It had the most significant oil fields in Europe, and Germany eagerly bought its petroleum, as well as food exports. King Carol favored Germany but after his death in 1914, King Ferdinand and the nation's political elite favored the Entente. For Romania, the highest priority was taking Transylvania from Hungary, with its 3,000,000 Romanians. The Allies wanted Romania to join its side in order to cut the rail communications between Germany and Turkey, and to cut off Germany's oil supplies.  Britain made loans, France sent a military training mission, and Russia promised modern munitions.  The Allies promised at least 200,000 soldiers to defend Romania against Bulgaria to the south, and help it invade Austria.
The Romanian campaign was part of the Balkan theatre of World War I, with Romania and Russia allied with Britain and France against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria, and Turkey. Fighting took place from August 1916 to December 1917 across most of present-day Romania, including Transylvania, which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time, as well as in southern Dobruja, which is currently part of Bulgaria.
Despite initial successes, the Romanian forces (aided by Russia) suffered massive setbacks, and by the end of 1916 only Moldavia remained. After several defensive victories in 1917, with Russia's withdrawal from the war following the October Revolution, Romania, almost completely surrounded by the Central Powers, was also forced to drop out of the war; it signed the Treaty of Bucharest with the Central Powers in May 1918. On 10 November 1918, just one day before the German armistice and after all the other Central Powers had already capitulated, Romania re-entered the war after the successful Allied advances on the Macedonian Front.