Nature of Paris Peace Treaties: Peace without Victory or Peace with Victory
1919: Ger empire had fallen, therefore their overseas countries had to be dealt with
Mandates: a form of trusteeship overseen by LofN -> so colonial possesions belonged to the League
SECRET DEALS: Br + Fr division of the Ottoman empire, Japan got some Islands on N equator
Portuguese claims ignored, Belgian were only given Rwanda and Burundi, people of the territories not consulted.
Nauru: GB took over
The Mandate powers were given a moral duty towards their mandate
The Mandate powers had a duty to do humanitarian work such as endling slave trafficking
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