Romania doesn't join the Antanta,after WWI attacks Hungary and takes Transylvania

[WinRar Archivist]

What if Romania remains neutral and after the Great War ends takes the lands with a majoritary Romanian population through military means?
What if it uses this time to train it's 650 000 soldiers?

 

[raharris1973]

What if Romania remains neutral and after the Great War ends takes the lands withva majoritary Romanian population through military means?
What if it uses this time to train it's 650 000 soldiers?

Maybe it can work out for them (like Turkey's war of independence) but being the first one post WWI to start a fresh war is really going to piss off European opinion, and could lead to diplomatic and economic sanctions.

Also, if Romania has stayed out, what is the situation with Bessarabia?

 

[WinRar Archivist]

Also, if Romania has stayed out, what is the situation with Bessarabia?

Well in OTL Bessarabia became an independent republic(Moldavian Democratic Republic) and united with Romania in the 27th of March 1918 whithout military intervention.Romanian troops entered Bessarabia only after the union.

 

[Tibi088]

If everything else goes same as OTL they surely can beat Hungary. OTL they managed to occupy Budapest.

OTOH they surely cant count on entente goodvill - or on much less. This supposes that they didnt join the war - not even in the final stages. Whats more they didnt receive any promises from the entente. However there will be entente troops in the region - serbians and french if I remember correctly in southern part of then Hungary. OTL there was some argument on who should receive the Banat - the Serbians or the Romanians. ITTL I see the entente clearly favouring the Serbians. This could develope to a very delicate situation.

Another point I heard however Im not at all sure if its true is that supposedly Romania received a lot of weapons and war material from the western powers at the end of the war to use against the soviets in an intervention which they ended up using instead against the than communist Hungary. Hence the mentioned occupation of Budapest.

To sum it up: I dont see the Hungarians putting up much of a fight however there is some serious potential for trouble with Serbia. I still think that in the end it would be the western powers who drew the borders in the region. Except if this happens after the peace settlements so after 1920. I think they would be less sympathetic to Romania if it stayed out of the war against all their effort to bring them in.

 

[WinRar Archivist]

The only materials they recieved were those they asked for in the OTL Treaty with Antanta and I think they were not send as much as it should have because of difficulties in deliveries.
As for Serbia in OTL they split it between Serbia and Romania and a little part went to Hungary.

 

[GDIS Pathe]

Antanta

If your referring to the alliance between Britian Russia and Franc its called Entente

 

[SealTheRealDeal]

What if Romania remains neutral and after the Great War ends takes the lands with a majoritary Romanian population through military means?
What if it uses this time to train it's 650 000 soldiers?

Romania's army is still armed with Austrian guns and still only has the domestic production capacity to make one bullet per rifle per day. If anything they're now weaker without the Entente's injection of supplies (meagre as they were) and the equipment they captured durring the war.

Also, would the Central Powers even lose if there isn't the Romanian distraction? Because a victorious Austria Hungary and Bulgaria would walk all over Romania.

 

[WinRar Archivist]

Sorry,Romanians call it Antanta.I think the war would take longer but the Entente would win at the end,altough with a greater American participation.

 

[BigBlueBox]

Romania being neutral would cause lots of butterflies. Treaty of Trianon would obviously be different, and so would the Treaty of St-Germaine. Hungary’s form of government would probably also be different.

 

[Fehérvári]

It's all great and all, but I think we overlook the most important question, which needs to be answered before anything else: Why did Romania not join the war?