Romania

Visa from the United States Embassy in Bucharest, passport, plane ticket and... money

Wikipedia gives an estimate of 280,000-380,000. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Romania#The_Holocaust Note that during World War 2 Romania's border were different from those before and after the war. It did not include much of Transylvania, which had been transferred to Hungary, but did include modern Moldova and a small part of the Ukraine. Romania had a reputation for vicious antisemitism and the country carried out its own national Holocaust.

The name Romania was adopted officially in 1862.

Poland and Czech Republic are catholic countries.

Romania is an orthodox country.

Dacians were a branch of Thracians that inhabitanted Dacia (corresponding to modern Romania, Moldova and northern Bulgaria). The Dacian kingdom reached its maximum expansion during King Burebista, around 82 BC. Later, The region came under the scrutiny of Rome when the Roman province, bordering along the Danube, Moesia, was attacked by the Dacians in 87 AD during Emperor Domitian's reign. The Dacians were eventually defeated by the Roman Empire under Emperor Trajan in two campaigns[23] and the core of their kingdom was turned into the province of Roman Dacia. stretching from 101 AD to 106 AD,

So... Dacia (today Romania), was more than 200 years a Roman province.. people from Dacia started to your Latin and so take the habits from Romans....

More than 60% from Romanian language have/has roots from Latin (Romanian Language being considered a Romance Language - like French, Italian and so on)

Now is a free market system.

GDP per capita in Romania, in 2009: an estimate is 11 500 US $.

some 200,000 in total died but 20,000 died in Stalingrad and some 30,000 got killed by Yugoslavian soldiers. but the rest got killed in the battle of Romania when the soviets cut thew the Romania killing thousands to get to Yugoslavia. but im not sure if im right i know alot about ww2 but i don't know much about the Romanians during world war 2

These mountains are the Carpathians Mountains.

The Pax Romana followed the creation of rule by an emperor by Augustus which followed the civil wars which brought the Roman Republic down. The stronger system of government created by Augustus, where the central government had much better control over the provinces of the empire, worked well during the 200 years of the Pax Romana. There was political conflict, but it did not spiral out of control. There were political conspiracies against emperors, but this did not destabilise the empire and ways to ensure successions of emperors which maintained stability were usually found. Military conflicts over imperial succession occurred in the Year of the Four Emperors, but were small scale and got nowhere near civil war. Another factor that contributed to the relative stability was the decision to limit the expansion of the empire and to avoid conflict with other military powers after setbacks to an initial phase of expansion during this period.

The relative peace and stability provided by a stronger system of government created an opportunity for economic growth through a growth in trade. The empire developed an intensive and extensive trading network where goods were bought, sold transported and sold all around the empire and beyond. Rome also trade with Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, India and China.

During the Second World War, Romania tried again to remain neutral, but on June 28, 1940, it received a Soviet ultimatum with an implied threat of invasion in the event of non-compliance. Under pressure from Moscow and Berlin, the Romanian administration and the army were forced to retreat from Bessarabia as well from Northern Bukovina to avoid war (giving these territories to Russia). This, in combination with other factors, prompted the government to join the Axis

Romania joined Germany in world war 2 to recover her lost territories.

Liberal, free market

Romania picked the wrong side in two world wars. In WWI they thought the Russians were doing well in 1916 and so joined with them. Romania was quickly overrun by German / Austrian troops and occupied for the duration of the war. In WWII, the Romanians thought they knew better. They sided with Germany from the start (what was the alternative? siding with Stalinist Russia was not really an option.) Germany assisted Romania in the war by proving military supplies and various trade. Romania provided most of Germany's natural petroleum supplies. Romania's military fought well alongside Germany's, on the Russian front. About 500,000 Romanian troops died here including large numbers in the Stalingrad campaign of 1942-43. The western allies bombed what parts of the country they could, but the long distances involved prevented the mass terror bombing perpetrated on Germany. After the war, Romania suffered like the rest of eastern Europe at the hands of the Soviets. The country was brutalized by Soviet occupation. Some territory was stripped away. A puppet pro-Soviet government was set up. Secret police terrorized the populace. Eventually the Soviets withdrew and Communism collapsed. The pro-Soviet leadership was disbanded or executed. The Romanians did extremely well out of WW1. They gained Transylvania, the Banat and several adjoining districts, the Bukovina and Bessarabia. The country doubled in size! They were in very good standing with the West because they suppressed the Bela Kun's Communist uprising in Hungary in 1919.

Romania does have nuclear reactors that are used for supplying power, but they do not possess any known nuclear weapons.

The economy of Romania was practically destroyed after 1990.

2009: approx. 11 500 US $ per capita (purchasing power parity)

they are that all the countries in the eu are better and stronger together

Romanian National Census, March 2002: 2,347 % illiterates. Today, probably a little lower percentage.

The United States wanted the nations of Eastern Europe to be independent, for a number of reasons. In philosophical terms, it is obviously a terrible injustice for the USSR to impose its rule on other nations without their consent. In practical terms, if the USSR can take over eastern Europe, it is possible that they will take over western Europe as well, and beyond that, they might eventually be in a position to take over the US. Even in purely economic terms, the US needs to engage in international trade, and the US is at risk of large parts of the world become captive of a hostile economic system that does not accept the free market. So there were several reasons for concern.

That Alliance was called the Warsaw Pact. It was dissolved in 1989.

You should be aware the the Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1990 when all of its 16 constituent republics voted to secede from the USSR. So everybody was free from the Soviet Union once there no longer was a Soviet Union. As for the communist regime of Romania, that was overthrown by a general revolt. It was extremely unpopular.

In World War II Romania fought on both sides. In 1939, it declared its neutrality, while assessing its options. However, due to the Hungarian occupation of Transsylvania, and the Russian occupation of Bessarabia (Bulgaria also took a small south-eastern slice of territory), it entered the war on the Axis side. -EDIT: That was NOT the reason for Romania entering the Axis side, Russia was on the Allies side and Romania was far superior to Hungary so their influence meant nothing. The Romanians joined the Axis side because they believed that was the right side.

On 23rd August 1944, the King took the power back from Marshall Antonescu and turned arms back against the Axis and sided with the Allies. Romania was occupied by the USSR, but did not loose its independence. Instead, it became a Communist republic in 1948.

Romania was not invaded by Nazi Germany, it was an ally of Hitler agaist the Soviet Union.

Decreased in all sectors