Question

A king of this modern-day country who feuded with its National Peasant Party in the 1930s sought to protect it with the so-called “Imaginot (“IMAGINE-oh”) Line.” Marie, this country’s “wartime queen,” (0[1])secured generous terms at Versailles and restored its Bran Castle. (20[1]0[2])Operation (20[1])Tidal Wave carpet (20[1])bombed (20[1]0[1])this country’s oil center (20[2])of (20[1]0[1])Ploiești (20[8])(“ploy-YESCHT”). The Nicadori was one of the death (20[1])squads linked to this country’s fascist (*) Iron Guard. (10[2]0[1])In (10[3])1969, a Communist leader of this country welcomed Richard Nixon but soon cracked down (0[2])on the “bourgeois” in the July Theses. That ruler of this country oversaw (0[1])the (10[1])Securitate and was executed on Christmas (10[1])Day (10[1])in (10[1])1989. For 10 points, name this country whose longtime (10[1])dictator Nicolae (10[1])Ceaușescu (“chow-SHESH-koo”) was (10[1])executed near (10[1]0[1])Bucharest. (10[5])■END■

ANSWER: Romania (The monarch in the lead-in was King Carol II.)
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