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The Trusteeship Council was formed in 1945 to oversee the decolonization of those dependent territories that were to be placed under the international trusteeship system created by the United Nations Charter as a successor to the League of Nations mandate system.

Ultimately, eleven territories were placed under trusteeship: seven in Africa and four in Oceania.

Ten of the trust territories had previously been League of Nations mandates ; the eleventh was Italian Somaliland.