The peace treaty of Trianon
The Trianon Peace Treaty was signed on June 4th, 1920 by France, Great Britain, Italy, the United States, Japan, Romania, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Czechoslovakia and nine other states, on the one hand, and Hungary, on the other hand, being...
Romania, dissatisfied with the way negotiations were handled at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference
Ionel Brătianu, the Romanian prime minister, had a tumultuous relationship in Paris with the leaders of the Great Powers. He was deeply dissatisfied with the fact that the Great Powers did not recognize Romania’s equal status that would allow it to better promote the...
The Belgrade Convention and Romania’s interests
Romania was in a critical situation at the end of the First World War. With most of the country still occupied by the troops of the Central Powers, with its leadership in Iași and its army partially demobilized, Romania was forced to move as quickly as possible to...
The Treaty of Versailles and Clemenceau’s predictions
It was just after 3 pm, on June 28th, 1918, when the two German ministers elected for the ungrateful task of signing the Peace Treaty entered the great Hall of Mirrors in the Versailles Palace. German Foreign Minister Hermann Muller and Transport Minister Johannes...
The Oradea Declaration: The document that proclaimed the right of Romanians in Austria-Hungary to self-determination
On October 12, 1918, the Executive Committee of the Romanian National Party from Transylvania met in Oradea, at the house of lawyer Aurel Lazăr, to decide how Romanians could fulfill their national objectives taking into account the imminent defeat and dissolution of...
The establishment of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate in the United States: “An act of unification with the country, before unification”
Prior to the end of the First World War, Hungarian diplomacy in the United States carried out intense propaganda aimed at influencing American public opinion and political circles in favour of the Budapest government’s view of Transylvania. In order to counter this...
The Statement of President Woodrow Wilson in 1918
On July 28, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson gave the following message to the American people. It was read in churches throughout the country and published in virtually all major newspapers. The Serbian flag was raised at the White House and at a number of public...
The Paris peace conference of 1919-1920: A Yugoslav perspective
In Eastern Europe each country has it own perspective about history, justice and how the borders look like. We published an article about how Ukraine historians see the border between Romania and their young state in Bukovina. Now you are republish an article about an...
Declaration of Czecho-Slovak Independence by the Provisional Government in Paris, 18 October 1918
Reproduced below is the text of the Czecho-Slovak declaration of independence, issued by the Paris-based Provisional Government on 18 October 1918. „At this grave moment, when the Hohenzollerns are offering peace in order to stop the victorious advance of the allied...
The Romanian-Italian secret agreements from the beginning of the First World War
At the beginning of the First World War, Romania and Italy were in a similar situation. Both states were bound to the Central Powers through secret agreements, but their main national objectives were in conflict with Austro-Hungarian interests. Many Romanians and...