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TRUST TERRITORY PERIOD (1947 to 1978)
In July 1947 the area was recognized as a Trust Territory by the United Nations. The United States Navy , and later the Department of Interior, became the administrator under a Trusteeship Agreement with the United Nations Organization, the successor to the League of Nations. In 1952, upon signing the Treaty of Peace in San Francisco, Japan legally gave up all claims in the mandated islands formerly provided by the League of Nations and acknowledged the United Nations Agreement establishing the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands with the United States as the administering authority.