France, the main supporter of Romania at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919
Despite the tumultuous relationship between French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau and Romanian Prime Minister Ionel Brătianu, France supported the consolidation and recognition of a strong Romania. The interest of Paris in the area was dictated by two priorities....
“The Hungarians were yesterday our enemies, today they are the ones vanquished and tomorrow we want for them to be our friends”
For Romania, the First World War did not end on November 11, 1918. The Romanian army’s advance to Transylvania was made in stages, and until the end of January 1919, Romanian soldiers reached the Apuseni Mountains. On March 21, 1919, the Hungarian Soviet Republic was...
“Strengthen Romania, because there you have not only an army, but also a government and a people”
When the regime of Béla Kun was installed in Hungary, the Supreme Council had already decided to support the great majority of Romania’s claims at the Paris Peace Conference. Bela Kun came from a small...
Romania and the start of the Paris Peace Conference
In the search for international recognition of its union with Bessarabia, Bukovina, Banat and Transylvania, Romania found itself threatened by the new political current sweeping in from the east. The installation of bolshevism in Hungary in the spring of 1919 was a...
The principle of “self-determination” at the Paris Peace Conference
The “self-determination” principle brought into the discussion by President Woodrow Wilson at the Paris Peace Conference was a key concept, but one that wasn’t clearly defined, leaving room for interpretation. The Great War reshaped the whole world. Europe had lost...
How were the decisions being made at the Paris Peace Conference?
The greatest and most destructive war that mankind went through for four years (1914-1918) was followed by the largest peace conference in history. Powers great and small had to find a way to prevent such a conflict from happening in the future. The First World War...
Treaty of Trianon, and Protocol
The Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye: Austria recognizes the dismantling of its empire
September 10, 1919 is the date when that once great and rich empire of Central Europe recognizes its defeat in the First World War. Two years after the Russian Empire and four years before the Ottoman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed, leaving behind it a...
Moment First World War battlefield finally falls silent on Armistice Day
To mark the centenary of the Armistice, the Imperial War Museum used an authentic sound graph to recreate the end of the Great War on the American front. A chilling audio re-creation depicts the moment the guns fell silent on the First World War battlefields at the...
Why wasn’t Germany invaded at the end of World War One?
The Third Reich was invaded in 1945 from West and East by the Anglo-American and Soviet troops respectively. In order to be victorious over it, they had to effectively destroy the National-Socialist regime. However, the Entente was not in the same situation at the end...