This policy is called conscription ... in the first year During the whole of the war, 2.5 million people were forced to join the war Across the world, the human cost of WW1 was enormous.

World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. However, conscription has often sparked anti-war sentiments, particularly ...

The issue of conscription or mandatory military service tore Canada apart during the First World War. Pictured here, soldiers standing by a sign denouncing men who did not sign up for the war.

The US has used conscription systems dating back to the Revolutionary War era. Six major wars have involved drafts: the ...

Within weeks of the World War One beginning in the summer of 1914, there were already some who, fearing that conscription was ... The Military Services (No.2) Act, 1918, became law on receiving ...

In the bloodiest war the world had ever known ... he retreated from his promise of no conscription. Borden's government passed a conscription law on July 24, 1917. Conscription dictated that ...