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United Nations
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.