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?
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.
The mandates assigned administration to imperial powers under claims of tutelage and future self-government.