Reintrarea României în război și relațiile cu Antanta (noiembrie 1918 – ianuarie 1919)
Romania’s Re-Entry Into the War and the Relations With the Entente (November 1918 – January 1919)

Summary/Abstract: The peace-diktat of Bucharest (April 24 / May 7, 1918), which was the direct consequence of Romania’s utter military isolation following Russia’s defection caused by the Bolshevik revolution, did not entail the complete abandonment of the grand strategic objective which prompted Romania to enter the war alongside the Entente in the first place. As the representatives of the Allies subsequently admitted in writing, Romania, which “faithfully respected all its commitments” undertaken in August 1916, was no longer capable, under the new circumstances, to continue its armed resistance. However, the struggle for national liberation and unification – which recorded its first major success through the return of Bessarabia to the motherland (March 27 / April 9, 1918) – experienced an unprecedented boost in the coming months, culminating with the historic decisions from Chernivtsi and Alba Iulia, which laid the foundations of the unitary and independent Romanian nation state. During all this time, Romania maintained close ties with the Allies, communicating to the governments from Paris, London, Rome and Washington its desire to resume the fighting when the circumstances will allow it.

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