On 30 January, the Paris Peace Conference's Supreme Council agreed to allocate former German and Ottoman territories through a League of Nations mandate framework. The language of trusteeship and future self-government softened the appearance of conquest, while victorious powers retained administration and strategic control. The mandate system became a central interwar form of imperial rule and a site of political contest over sovereignty.
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What did the League mandate system do with many former German and Ottoman territories?
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The mandate system transferred administration to powers that had won the war and justified it as tutelage toward future self-government.
The League mandate system immediately granted independence to the former colonies it covered.
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The mandates assigned administration to imperial powers under claims of tutelage and future self-government.