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United Nations
Trusteeship Council
At its creation, the United Nations designed a trusteeship system to look
after the colonies of the
Axis
powers—called Trust Territories—and
dedicated an entire chapter of the Charter to describing the goals and
duties of the system. The Trusteeship Council would oversee the system
and would be one of the six main organs of the United Nations. (The
others were the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and