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| 1934, April |
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| Parliament passed a law on “the defense of order within the state” which enabled the government to dissolve any political group that jeopardized the political and social order. | 1 |
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| 1936, Feb |
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| The anti-Semitic Christian League, headed by A. C. Cuza, and the National Christian Party, led by the poet Octavian Goga, united with one wing of the National Peasants' Party, under Vaida-Voevod, to form a reactionary bloc not much different from the Fascist Iron Guard. | 2 |
| The liberal government under Tatarescu proved to be helpless in the face of a series of terrorist acts, committed by the fanatically anti-Semitic Iron Guard under Corneliu Z. Codreanu. | 3 |
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| 1937, Dec. 21 |
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| Thanks to surprising preelectoral pacts of the National Peasants’ Party with the Iron Guard and the Communists, the elections resulted in a defeat for the government. Thereupon the government resigned (Dec. 26) and King Carol, once more astounding the world, appointed Goga his prime minister. | 4 |
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| Dec. 28 |
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| OCTAVIAN GOGA made prime minister, despite the fact that his National Christian Party had gained only 10 percent of the vote in the election. Goga at once embarked upon an orgy of anti-Semitic legislation, forbidding Jews to own land, depriving those naturalized after 1920 of their citizenship, barring Jews from the professions, and so on. At the same time Goga aimed at the establishment of a dictatorship by sending his party troops into all localities. | 5 |
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