Editing Ferdinand I of Romania (section)

===After the war===

The outcome of Romania's war effort was the union of [[Bessarabia]], [[Bukovina]], and [[Transylvania]] with the [[Kingdom of Romania]] in 1918. Ferdinand became the ruler of a greatly enlarged Romanian state in 1918–1920 following the victory of the Entente over the Central Powers, a [[Hungarian-Romanian War of 1919|war]] between the [[Kingdom of Romania]] and the new [[Hungarian Soviet Republic]], and the [[Russian Civil War]]. He was crowned king of "Greater Romania" in a spectacular ceremony on 15 October 1922 in the courtyard of the newly consecrated "[[Coronation Cathedral, Alba Iulia|Coronation Cathedral]]" in the historic princely seat of [[Alba Iulia]] in Transylvania.

A new period of Romanian history began on the day of the [[Union of Transylvania with Romania]] ([[Great Union Day]], ''Marea Unire'').<ref name="cimec">{{cite web|url=http://www.cimec.ro/Istorie/Unire/conti_eng.htm |title=Marea Unire de la Alba Iulia – 1 Decembrie 1918 |publisher=cimec.ro |access-date=7 December 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318011423/http://www.cimec.ro/Istorie/Unire/conti_eng.htm |archive-date=18 March 2014}}</ref> This period would come to an end with international treaties, in the years leading to World War II, which ceded parts of Romania to its neighbors. As such, they are widely seen as an attempt to provoke the country into taking sides and joining the war.<ref>Institute for Operative-Strategic Studies and Military History, Romania in World War II 1941–1945, Publishing House Sylvi, Bucharest 1997. {{ISBN|973-9175-24-4}}</ref><ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Romania in World War II, 1941–1945|author1=Duțu, A.|author2=Institute for Operative-Strategic Studies and Military History|author3=Alexandrescu, I.|date=1997|publisher=Publishing House Sylvi|isbn=9789739175241|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tu4WAAAACAAJ}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/ferdinand_romania.htm | title = King Ferdinand I | access-date = 28 March 2013}}</ref>

Domestic political life during his reign was dominated by the conservative [[National Liberal Party (Romania, 1875)|National Liberal Party]], which was led by the brothers [[Ion I. C. Brătianu|Ion]] and [[Vintilă Brătianu]]. The acquisition of Transylvania had the unintended effect of enlarging the electoral base of the opposition, whose principal parties united in January 1925 – October 1926 to form the National Peasant Party.