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Successors to League of Nations mandates

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Palau District Police greet the UN Visiting Mission to theTrust Territory of the Pacific Islands (1973)

Arrival of UN Visiting Mission inMajuro,Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (1978). The sign reads "Please release us from the bondage of your trusteeship agreement."

Modern successor states of UN trust territories
Modern states composed solely of former trust territories
Modern states composed partially of former trust territories

TheUnited Nations trust territories were the successors of the remainingLeague of Nations mandates, and came into being when theLeague of Nations ceased to exist in 1946. All the trust territories were administered through theUnited Nations Trusteeship Council and authorized to a single country. The concept is distinct from aterritory temporarily and directly governed by the United Nations.

The one League of Nations mandate not succeeded by a trust territory wasSouth West Africa, atSouth Africa's insistence. South Africa'sapartheid regime refused to commit to preparing the territory for independence andmajority rule, as required by the trust territory guidelines, among other objections. South-West Africa eventually gained independence in 1990 asNamibia.

All trust territories have either attained self-government orindependence. The last wasPalau, formerly part of theTrust Territory of the Pacific Islands, which became amember state of the United Nations in December 1994.

Trust territories (and administering powers)

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Former GermanSchutzgebiete

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All these territories previously were League of Nations mandates.

Trust territories	United Nations Trusteeship Power	Prior name	Prior sov.	Comments	Current state
British Cameroon	United Kingdom	Kamerun	German colonial empire	Following aplebiscite,Northern Cameroons became part ofNigeria in May 1961 andSouthern Cameroons joined Cameroon in October 1961.	Nigeria
British Cameroon	United Kingdom				Republic of Cameroon
French Cameroon	France			Achieved independence asCameroon in 1960.	Republic of Cameroon
Territory of Nauru	Australia,New Zealand,United Kingdom	German New Guinea		Granted independence from Australia (administering authority) in 1968.	Nauru
Territory of New Guinea	Australia	German New Guinea		In 1975, it was legally unified with theTerritory of Papua and granted independence asPapua New Guinea. Thewestern half of theisland, formerly Dutch and now part ofIndonesia, was never part of either territory.	Papua New Guinea
Ruanda-Urundi	Belgium	German East Africa		Separately gained independence in 1962 asRepublic of Rwanda andKingdom of Burundi.	Republic of Rwanda
Ruanda-Urundi	Belgium				Republic of Burundi
Tanganyika Territory	United Kingdom			Granted independence in 1961. Federated with the former British protectorateZanzibar in 1964 to formTanzania.	United Republic of Tanzania
French Togoland	France	Togoland		Became independent asTogo in 1960.	Togo
British Togoland	United Kingdom	Togoland		This territory was merged in 1956 with the British colony of theGold Coast, which was granted independence asGhana in 1957.	Ghana
Western Samoa	New Zealand	German Samoa		Granted independence in 1962, known since 1997 simply asSamoa.	Independent State of Samoa

Former Japanese possessions

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Trust territories	United Nations Trusteeship Power	Prior name	Prior sov.	Current state	Comments
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands	United States	South Seas Mandate	Empire of Japan	Northern Mariana Islands	BecameUS Commonwealth in 1986.
				Marshall Islands	Became anassociated state of the United States after signing aCompact of Free Association in 1986.
				Federated States of Micronesia	Became an associated state of United States after signing a Compact of Free Association in 1986.
				Palau	Became an associated state of United States after signing and ratifying a Compact of Free Association going into effect in 1994.

Former Italian possessions

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Trust territories	United Nations Trusteeship Power	Prior name	Prior sov.	Current state	Comments
Territory of Somaliland	Italy	Italian East Africa	Italian Empire	Somalia	In 1960, the Trust Territory merged with theState of Somaliland to form theSomali Republic

Proposed trust territories

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Jerusalem: Under theUnited Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, Jerusalem would have become acorpus separatum territory under United Nations Trusteeship Council administration. BothPalestinian Arabs and theYishuv opposed this solution.
Korea: In wartime talks,Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed that Korea be placed under an American–Soviet trust administration. The plan was eclipsed after Roosevelt's death on 12 April 1945, although it was expressed in the DecemberMoscow Conference, and caused considerable civil unrest in Korea.^[1]
Vietnam: Roosevelt also proposed thatFrench Indochina be placed under an international trusteeship as an alternative toFrench colonial rule and immediate independence.^[2]
Italian Libya: Between 1945 and 1947, the Soviet Union made various proposals thatTripolitania be placed under Soviet trusteeship for ten years, or a joint trusteeship with the United Kingdom and the United States, or that Libya as a whole become an Italian trusteeship.^[3]
Mandatory Palestine: The United States government underHarry Truman proposed a UN trusteeship status for the Mandatory Palestine in 1948.^[4]^[5]
Ryukyu Islands andBonin Islands: theTreaty of San Francisco included provisions which provided the United States the right to convert its administration over the Ryukyu and Bonin Islands into a trust territory, but it never did so before sovereignty was voluntarily reverted to Japan.^[6]

References

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^Bradley, Mark Philip (31 December 2010), Anderson, David L. (ed.),"1. Setting the Stage: Vietnamese Revolutionary Nationalism and the First Vietnam War",The Columbia History of the Vietnam War, Columbia University Press, pp. 93–119,doi:10.7312/ande13480-003,ISBN 978-0-231-13480-4,archived from the original on 9 November 2021, retrieved9 November 2021
^St John, Ronald Bruce (April 1982). "The Soviet Penetration of Libya".The World Today.38 (4):131–138.JSTOR 40395373.
^"The United States and the Recognition of Israel: A Chronology".Compiled by Raymond H. Geselbracht from Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel (Westport, Connecticut, 1997) by Michael T. Benson. Harry S. Truman Library and Museum. Archived fromthe original on 31 October 2012. Retrieved3 August 2014.
^Pugh, Jeffrey D. (1 November 2012)."Whose Brother's Keeper? International Trusteeship and the Search for Peace in the Palestinian Territories".International Studies Perspectives.13 (4):321–343.doi:10.1111/j.1528-3585.2012.00483.x.ISSN 1528-3577.Archived from the original on 12 October 2017. Retrieved15 June 2017.
^"ARGENTINA, AUSTRALIA, BELGIUM, BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, etc. - Treaty of Peace with Japan (with two declarations)"(PDF). 8 September 1951. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 29 September 2017.