United Nations Trust Territories
United Nations
Trust Territories
were the successors of the
League of Nations mandates
and came into being when the
League of Nations
ceased to exist in
1946
. All of the trust territories were administered through the
UN Trusteeship Council
. The one territory not turned over was
South West Africa
, which
South Africa
insisted remain under the League of Nations Mandate. The main objection was that the trust territory guidelines required that the lands be prepared for independence and
majority rule
. Trust territories (and administering powers) were:
Cameroons
(
Britain
and
France
) - Divided between
Nigeria
and
Cameroon
in
1961
.
Nauru
(
Australia
) - Granted
independence
in
1968
.
New Guinea
(Australia) - Eastern half under control of
Indonesia
, western half granted independence as
Papua New Guinea
.
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
(
U.S.
) - Split into The
Republic of the Marshall Islands
(
1979
), The
Federated States of Micronesia
(
1979
), The
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
(
1978
), and The
Republic of Palau
(
1981
). With the exception of The Northern Mariana Islands, which is a
commonwealth
, they are all
Associated States
of the U.S.
Ruanda-Urundi
(
Belgium
) - Gained independence as the countries of
Rwanda
and
Burundi
.
Somalia
(
Italy
) - Granted independence in
1959
.
Tanganyika
(Britain) - Became independent in
1961
. Merged with
Zanzibar
in 1964 to form
Tanzania
.
Togoland
(Britain and France) - Merged with the
Gold Coast
in
1946
, now know as
Ghana
.
Western Samoa
(
New Zealand
) - Granted independence in
1962
.
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