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System of Mandates: By: Gianfranco Canepa D

The document discusses the system of mandates established after World War 1. It describes how the League of Nations divided mandates into three classes - A, B, and C - depending on the territory's level of development and assigned them to Allied countries to administer. While the mandate system acknowledged the right of mandated peoples to eventual independence, it lacked enforcement and was exploited by imperial powers seeking to maintain control over former colonies. The mandate system was later replaced by the UN trusteeship system.

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System of Mandates: By: Gianfranco Canepa D

The document discusses the system of mandates established after World War 1. It describes how the League of Nations divided mandates into three classes - A, B, and C - depending on the territory's level of development and assigned them to Allied countries to administer. While the mandate system acknowledged the right of mandated peoples to eventual independence, it lacked enforcement and was exploited by imperial powers seeking to maintain control over former colonies. The mandate system was later replaced by the UN trusteeship system.

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System of Mandates

By: Gianfranco Canepa D.

Overview

Germany and their allies lost the war.

Treaty of Versailles:
1. Excessive Reparation payment from all the central powers.

Through the 5 treaties (), many countries had to resign their territories to
newly formed countries like Yugoslavia.

League of Nations was formed in June 28th 1919.

League of Nations
In the image it says:
The League of
Nations Bridge was
designed by the
president of the USA.

League of Nations Failure (into the


future)

Weak powers

America was not a member

The League's structure/organisation was inefficient

World Depression made nations less cooperative

The more the League failed, the less authority it had

Its own members betrayed it and let it down

The League faced aggressive military fascist powers

What is a mandate?

In its political aspect, the history of the world could be read as the history of the creation
and disintegration of successive empires, a chain of vicious cause and effect that has brought
much bloodshed and wretchedness. After World War I, however, a concerted effort was made
for the first time, in a limited way, to break the chain. (Retrieved: http://
www.nationsencyclopedia.com/United-Nations/The-Trusteeship-Council-THE-MANDATE-SYSTE
M-OF-THE-LEAGUE-OF-NATIONS.html#ixzz3XKrClzS7
)

A mandatewas a legal status for certain territories transferred from the control of one
country to another followingWorld War I. In other words, it was considered as the legal
instruments that contained the internationally agreed-upon terms for administering the
territory on behalf of the League.

The mandate system was established on June 28 th 1919 under the article 22 of the covenant
of the league of nations.

Those territories belonging to imperial Germany and theOttoman Empirethat were


considered unable to function as independent states were placed under international
administration supervised by the League of Nations.

Mandate Divisions

The mandate system was divided into three main groups depending on the colonys location and its
level of political and economic development in order to be assigned to an Allied victor.

Class A mandates consisted of the former Turkish provinces ofIraq,Syria,Lebanon, and Palestine.
Thes. Ie territories were considered sufficiently advanced that their provisional independence was
recognized, though they were still subject to Allied administrative control until they were fully able
to stand aloneraq and Palestine were assigned to Great Britain, Syria and Lebanon went toFrance.

*All Class A mandates had reached full independence by 1949.

Class B mandates consisted of the former German-ruled African colonies of Tanganyika,


Togolandand the Cameroons, andRuanda-Urundi. The Allied powers were directly responsible for
the administration of these mandates but were subject to certain controls intended to protect the
rights of the mandates native peoples. Tanganyika was assigned to Britain, while most of the
Cameroons and Togoland were assigned to France, and Ruanda-Urundi went toBelgium.

Class C mandates consisted of various former German-held territories that mandatories


subsequently administered as integral parts of their territory: South West Africa, New Guinea,
Western Samoa, the islands north of the Equator in the western Pacific (Japan), and Nauru.

It is important to note that the terms of the mandate system implied an


acknowledgment of the right of the peoples of the colonial territories belonging to
states defeated in war to be granted independence if they were thought to have
reached a sufficiently advanced stage of development.

However, no provision was made in the League Covenant specifying that the
countries designated to administer the mandated territories should take steps to
prepare these peoples for eventual self-determination.

In other words, imperialistic countries like Japan made use of this exploit in order
to keep the colonies for them and even expand to other territories to the east.

As a final remark, The mandate system was replaced by theUNtrusteeship system


in 1946.

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