Whakakī i te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau 1940, hei hua o te Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, ko Romania
I akiakihia ki te tuku i Bessarabia me Northern Bukovina ki te Soviet Union, i arahi ki te hanganga o te Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (Moldavian SSR), i uru atu ki te nuinga o Bessarabia me te rohe ki te hauauru o te MASSR o mua (ki te rawhiti o te awa o Dniester). I te 27 o Akuhata 1991, i te wa e rere ana te Soviet Union, i kii te Moldavian SSR i te rangatiratanga me te ingoa o Moldova. I whakaaetia te kaupapa ture o Moldova i te tau 1994. Ko te rohe o te rohe o Moldova i te taha rawhiti o te Dniester kei raro i te mana "de facto" o te kawanatanga wehe o Transnistria mai i te 1990.