Romania Wank

OK, so perhaps it's not a wank, but how can we get Romania as strong as realistically possible with a POD post-1900? I've noticed that Romania and Bulgaria tend to be ignored on some parts of the world stage (perhaps with good reason?), so I thought it was an interesting, if random, idea to try to bulk up that part of the world.

So, what would be needed? Would Romania have to get a greater piece of the Versailles pie, for instance?
 
Well, if one manages to create a situation where the Soviet Union can't (or, mayhap, simply far more risky) pressure Romania to give up Bessarabia, and if we presume a post-Versailles POD... have Romania avoid losing Bessarabia after gaining it, and avoid losing a second world war, or, indeed, a war with anyone in the vicinity, and one could see a larger Romania by today.
 
The treaty of Versailles was a pretty ridiculous Romania-wank in OTL; Romania joins the allies halfway through the war, was essentially knocked out in a couple months, and at the end of the war got ridiclously massive tracts of territory despite not really doing much for the war effort.
 
The treaty of Versailles was a pretty ridiculous Romania-wank in OTL; Romania joins the allies halfway through the war, was essentially knocked out in a couple months, and at the end of the war got ridiclously massive tracts of territory despite not really doing much for the war effort.
Yeah, but nationalism was the new "in" thing then. Transylvania = Romanian, + the Entente wants Austria-Hungary cut into little pieces, therefore Transylvania goes to Romania.
 
It did - half of it.

More than half.

Romanian and Serb ambitions in the Banat overlapped. The disagreement was over-shadowed by both sides' designs on and fear of Hungary and the resulting alliance. It seems that Hitler offered Antonescu the Yugoslav Banat when he decided to invade and dismember Yugoslavia; Antonescu refused* but asked that the region is not given to Hungary.

The treaty of Versailles was a pretty ridiculous Romania-wank in OTL; Romania joins the allies halfway through the war, was essentially knocked out in a couple months, and at the end of the war got ridiclously massive tracts of territory despite not really doing much for the war effort.

We have communism to thank for that, actually. Bela Kun for Transylvania and Lenin for Bessarabia.

*If the story is true then this was fortunate. It's very possible that Yugoslavia would have been given part or all of the Romanian Banat after the war to punish us.
 
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