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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
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.