Mandate System

The Mandate System

World History

Open Ended

Describe the relationship between colonies and the countries that colonized them.

1. The Mandate System

The Mandate System: a plan
from the Paris Peace Conference
to split up old Ottoman Lands
(in the Middle East), instead of
allowing self-determination.

France and Britain split up the

Arabic-speaking regions south of
Turkey.

Multiple Choice

What area were they focused on in the Mandate System?

• Africa

• Middle East

• Asia

• Latin America

Multiple Select

Which TWO nations split up this territory in the Middle East?

• Britain

• America

• France

• Italy

Open Ended

What is self-determination?

Here is the Truth

Mandates are basically Colonies

except….. Colonies are seen kinda as a bad thing

So Europeans changed the name…..

Open Ended

What are mandates basically.....

Middle East Today

Multiple Choice

What modern day countries were split up by Britain and France?

• Iraq

• Jordan

• Syria

• all of these

2. Colony vs Mandate

Similarities

• European controlled

• Resources could be taken

• Social Darwinism

• Created borders of modern

countries without regard to
culture.

Differences

●Was legally meant to be
temporary.

●Not a competition between
European countries

●Could not make locals into
soldiers.

Open Ended

How were colonies and mandates similar?

Open Ended

How were colonies and mandates different?

Do we remember Social Darwinism?

Social Darwinism: belief that white
people were the most civilized (smarter,
stronger, harder worker) and could do

what they wanted to weaker

countries/people.

3. Self-Determination vs Colonies/Mandates

•New European countries got self-determination

•France and Britain did not give up colonies.

•Japan asked for a “statement of racial equality” and was
denied at the Conference

Why weren’t the colonies and mandates allowed
self-determination? Use the word social
Darwinism in your answer.

Self-Determination: allowing a Nation to choose their
government and have a country of their own. Colonies
and Mandates were not allowed it.

Multiple Choice

Who asked for a statement of equality at the Paris Peace Conference?

• China

• Italy

• Japan

• Germany

4. Balfour Declaration (1917)

Many European Jews wanted
self-determination.

Britain promised British Zionists a
Jewish country in Palestine.

Zionism: The belief that the Jewish

people should have a legal
homeland in the lands around
Jerusalem.

Balfour Declaration

November 2nd 1917.

The Document is a copy of the “Balfour
Declaration”, sent by British Foreign
Secretary James Balfour to a group called
the “Zionist Federation of Great Britain
and Ireland”. This telegram was sent
during the war after advocates for Jewish
emigration to Palestine petitioned the
British government for support.

Multiple Choice

Britain would end up allowing self-determination and a country to which group?

• Jews

• Italy

• Japan

• China