What was Romania's government during 1939?

Answer 1

In July 1940, after a Soviet ultimatum, Romania agreed to give up Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina. Two thirds of Bessarabia were combined with a small part of USSR to form the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic. The rest (Northern Bukovina and Budjak) was apportioned to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Shortly thereafter, on 30 August, under the Second Vienna Award (or Vienna Diktat/Vienna Arbitration), Germany and Italy forced Romania to give half of Transylvania to Hungary. The Hungarians received a region referred to as "Northern Transylvania", while "Southern Transylvania" remained Romanian. Hungary had lost all of Transylvania after World War I in the Treaty of Trianon. They had never surrendered the ambition of regaining the territory. On 7 September, under the Treaty of Craiova, the Kadrilater or "Quadrilateral" (the southern part of Dobrudja) was ceded to Bulgaria (from which it had been taken at the end of the Second Balkan War in 1913).

On June 22, 1941, Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, attacking the Soviet Union on a wide front. Romania joined in the offensive, with Romanian troops crossing the River Prut. After recovering Bessarabia and Bukovina, Romanian units fought side by side with the Germans onward to Odessa, Sevastopol, and Stalingrad.

In February 1943, with the hugely successful Soviet counteroffensive at Stalingrad, it was growing clear that the tide of the war had turned against the Axis Powers and Axis probably will loose the war

When the war finished, under the 1947 Treaty of Paris, the Allies refused co-belligerent status to Romania. Northern Transylvania was, once again, recognised as an integral part of Romania, but the USSR was allowed to annex Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina. Parts in the extreme north and south became part of the Ukrainian SSR; the rest, together with a thin stretch of land on the left bank of the river Dniestr, became a new "Moldavian SSR". Since 1991, these territories are part of Ukraine and of the Republic of Moldova, respectively.

Answer 2

Romania is now a Republic. The three branches of government are:

Executive - a President, directly elected by the people with at least 51% of the vote. Mandate of 5 years. A Government, appointed by Parliament and approved by the President, which is headed by a Prime Minister.

Legislative - a bicameral Parliament (Senate and House of Deputies) directly elected by the people in proportional representation (i.e. the people vote for one of the parties nationally), although this is being changed into constituency voting (as in the US, Britain). Mandate of 4 years.

Judiciary - an independent Constitutional Court, which deals with the constitutionality of laws. an independent High Court of Cassation and Justice, which is as the US Supreme Court, with Appeal Courts, Tribunals and Justices under it.
Romania is now a republic and theoretically a democratic country.

Answer 3

Authoritarian regime

Answer 4

Soviet Communist rule!