AH Challenge - Mission (Im)possible

Right, another one of the those traditional 'construct a more-or-less plausible timeline' exercises.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is a biggie. You must devise a timeflow, with a starting point no earlier than 1878, in such a fashion that a state encompassing the Kingdom of Romania (1920-1939) and a western frontier on the river Tisza survives until the present day (and keeps on survivin').
You're allowed one territorial 'off', the "Cadrilater" region (Southwestern Dobrudja).
The resulting state doesn't necessarily have to be a kingdom; it may be a presidential, demipresidential or parliamentarian republic.

You may employ as many plausible nodal shifts as you see fit. Bear in mind, however, that accumulating several large shifts (like, say, both Hitler dying in the trenches and Lenin getting shot by an overzealous policeman) may destabilise the flow enough that subsequent events may not be discerned with any amount of plausibility. Also, do try to refrain from psychosocial ones (again, for example "What if Carol II doesn't become a hedonistic playboy").

Good luck.
 
Wow, it reached page 12 with no takers. Odd. I thought that an alternate timeline involving what was in OTL Germany's most important satellite (and in fact the Axis' third most important member) would be rather interesting.
 
I was thinking a better Brusilov offensive permits the romanians to advance until river Tisza, succesfully getting a really Greater Romania in the aftermath of the Great European War.
 
As a Romanian I think that the solution is to advance only up to the Tisa River, and not advance into Budapest, with the communist government not overthrown, we could probably metain our Tisa border, and when Horthy or some other-communist comes to power (Bela Kun would't have lasted long), we refuse to hand back the region, and I doubt that the Entente would push us.

Keeping such territory would require avioding World War 2, which is a whole other story...
 
You're allowed one territorial 'off', the "Cadrilater" region (Southwestern Dobrudja).
To clarify, by this I mean that you may choose to not employ that event. It will have never happened. That's the only concession to the timeline.
 
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