ABSTRACT
Winter, exhaustion on both sides and the accession of a new monarch in Austria-Hungary had slowed down military operations. By June, with massive French help, the reorganization of the Romanian army was completed. A Romanian National Committee of emigre personalities from Austria-Hungary recruited ethnic Romanian prisoners of war in Russian camps. Scholars and artists were sent to Paris, London and the United States to promote the Romanian cause. The murder in Sarajevo had enabled Austria-Hungary to make war on Serbia, to overrun her territory, to win the support of Turkey and Bulgaria, to occupy Montenegro and most of Albania. Part of the deal to get Romania to wage war on Austria-Hungary had been that the French Salonika-based Armee d'Orient would go into action against Bulgaria. The aim of peace settlements since the Congress of Vienna had been to restore relations between great powers and to control changes to the existing international order.
