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- After the German defeat in World War I, Germany's colonial empire was officially confiscated as part of the Treaty of Versailles between the Allies and German Weimar Republic. Each colony became a League of Nations mandate under the administration, although not sovereignty, of one of the Allied powers.
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4 days ago · The Permanent Mandates Commission supervised League of Nations mandates, and also organised plebiscites in disputed territories so that residents could decide which country they would join. There were three mandate classifications: A, B and C.
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2 days ago · The Abyssinian Crisis and the Failure of Collective Security. The Abyssinian Crisis of 1935-1936 further highlighted the League‘s inability to enforce its principles and maintain international order. In October 1935, Italian forces, under the leadership of Benito Mussolini, invaded the East African nation of Abyssinia (present-day Ethiopia ...
May 2, 2024 · The Palestine Mandate was established as part of the League of Nations' mandate system. Thus, an overview of the League is helpful, including its founding, the mandate system, and the League's eventual demise, in order to see the Palestine Mandate within its larger institutional context.
5 days ago · German colonies (light blue) were made into League of Nations mandates. Article 119 of the treaty required Germany to renounce sovereignty over former colonies and Article 22 converted the territories into League of Nations mandates under the control of Allied states.
4 days ago · The Mandate for Palestine was a legal document that established the United Kingdom as a Mandatory in charge of Palestine and Transjordan following its occupation of the territories during World War I and their eventual concession from the Ottoman Empire in 1918.
4 days ago · Mandatory administrations were repeatedly enjoined to be firm, often with tragic results, as with the bloody suppression of the Samoan Mau in December 1929. British influence lessened after Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain’s ham-fisted attempt to curb the independence of the PMC in 1925.
1 day ago · The League of Nations was established as the symbol of the emerging postwar order; one of its earliest tasks was to legitimize the territorial boundaries of the new nation-states created in the territories of the former Ottoman Empire, Asia, and Africa.
