HIS242H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: John Maynard Keynes
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Germany: another issue: treaty did not create an organization to introduce and promote international trade o trade barriers where a big issue for the newly created european states o added to the catastrophic impact of the great depression of 1929. The mandate system: agreement amongst allies to create a mandatory system to distribute colonies of the defeated powers o supervised by league of nations o purpose was to create independent democratic states, improve education and ways of life, main priority was to ensure well being of the people and the development of these territories o league was responsible for ensuring trade was possible for each territory, and no slavery, three classes of mandates: a, b, c o each territory placed into a class according to its stage of development and to what extent it was ready to become independent o territories most ready for independence were mandate a (e. g. palestine, syria,
