The Trusteeship Council is one of the principal organs of the United Nations, set up by the UN Charter in 1945 to supervise the administration of trust territories. These were colonies that had belonged to the defeated powers of the Second World War or to the League of Nations mandate system, and the Council worked to prepare them for self-government or independence. Eleven territories were placed under trusteeship, in Africa and the Pacific, among them Tanganyika, Togoland and Samoa. By the 1990s all had become independent or joined neighboring states. The last, Palau, became independent in 1994, and the Council then suspended its operations.
Before and after
- from 1945 to 1947Operation B
- 1945Founding of Jodrell Bank Observatory
- 1945Founding of United Nations Economic and Social Council
- 1945Discovery of promethium
- 1945Founding of United Nations Trusteeship Council
- 1945Founding of United Nations Secretariat
- 1945Discovery of Nag Hammadi library
- 1945Allied-occupied Germany
- 1945Invention of breadth-first search
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The era
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