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Michael became King for the first time on the death of his grandfather Ferdinand following King Carol's renunciation of the throne (December 1925). However he was shortly thereafter deposed by his father after only three years on the throne. He resumed the crown on King Carol's abdication a decade later, reigning over a country governed in practice by the pro- German regime of Marshal Ion Antonescu.

The King dismissed Prime Minister Antonescu as SovietThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR ( Russian: ; tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik (SSSR) also called the Soviet Union ( ; tr. Sovetsky Soyuz , was a state in much of the northern region of Eurasia that existed from 1922 until 1 forces entered Romania in August 1944 following the country's ill-fated intervention on Germany's side in World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough. In March, Michael subsequently was forced to appoint a pro- SovietThere are two main meanings to the word soviet Soviet (council) can mean a council of workers, a term that was used from the late Imperial Russia days. After the October Revolution, soviets (councils) became the main form of government at all levels: ente government dominated by the Communist Party of Romania. The Communists ultimately decreed his deposition and exile from the country in 1947; he was not allowed to return until 1997.

See also

• Kings of Romania
• Communist Romania