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LEAGUE OF NATIONS MANDATES AND THEIR MANDATORY POWERS

Class A Mandates Syria (France) Lebanon (France) Iraq (United Kingdom)

Palestine (United Kingdom) Transjordan (United Kingdom) Class B Mandates Ruanda-Urundi (Belgium)

Togoland (part France, part United Kingdom) Cameroons (part France, part United Kingdom) Tanganyika (United Kingdom) Class C Mandates South West Africa (South Africa) German Samoa (New Zealand) New Guinea (Australia) Nauru (Australia) German Islands in North Pacific (Japan)

The Trust Territories Many of the eleven Trust Territories were former League of Nations Mandates.Each faced unique situations,but the Trusteeship Council and the administering powers worked with the Trust Territories to help them gain self- government. This could mean independence, or it could mean the people of the Territory chose to become part of another country or to become a territory of another country. By the late 1960s,most of the Trust Territories had become independent. The last Trust Territory to gain self-government was Palau, part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and administered by the United States. Palau became self-governing in 1994 by choosing to be a territory of the United States. When Palau gained self-government, the work of the Trusteeship Council was completed.

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