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Delegates from the “Big Five”—China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States— at a meeting on June 10, 1945, during the San Francisco Conference held to launch the United Nations.

League of Nations Mandates Just as the United Nations dealt with the issue of what to do with the colonies of their conquered enemies, the League of Nations had faced the same dilemma after World War I. While the United Nations had Trust Territories, the League of Nations had Mandates . These Mandates were divided into three groups, based on how ready for self-government the League of Nations believed them to be. Class A Mandates were nearly ready to become independent, and, in fact, all the

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