World War I Romania World War I was said to be inevitable. For years there was controversy and quarrels between European countries. On June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo Gavrilo Princip, a young Serb belonging to the secret society of the Black Hand shot and assassinated Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. The killer was a Serbian. So Austria-Hungary decided to use the murder as an excuse to teach Serbia a lesson with help from its ally Germany. …showed first 75 words of 529 total…

…showed last 75 words of 529 total…land that was soon to be owned. The Allies promised Romania the Banat, a fertile agricultural region bounded by the Tisza , Mures, and Danube rivers and other land such as the Crisana-Maramures region from Hungary, Bukovina from Austria, and Bessarabia from Russia. In the end a total 333,706 men died out of a total of 750,000 from the war. Weather the deaths were worth it; Romania emerged from the war having almost doubled its area and population.