Mandates.
From August 1914 until November 1918, European states, organized into opposing alliances, waged World War I. By the time the war ended a new mood, one characterized by a longing for peace, had swept over Europe. The establishment of the League of Nations was a direct consequence of the war, and the league was perceived as the body that would restore some sanity to the world. One of the league's principal duties was the supervision of the mandates that were administered by sovereign states on behalf of the league. These mandates were the territories over which Germany and the Ottoman Empire had renounced all rights and titles in the treaties of Versailles (... ...
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