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The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, also known as the Burke-Wadsworth Act, Pub.L. 76-783, 54 Stat. 885, enacted September 16, 1940,[1] was the first peacetime conscription in United States history.
Draft
Word War II
During the Viet war..."draft" meant forcing men into the military. Draft=Conscription. Conscription CAN also occur during peacetime.
I'm not an American, but my understanding was the US can NOT have a peacetime draft due to something in the Constitution. Knowledgable Americans,please augment this.
As soon as they received their draft notice in the mail.
Despite being officially neutral, after 1940 the US begain to increase its spending on defense and passed the first peacetime military draft
The draft was ended at the end of th eVietnam war, because the peacetime army got the manpower it needed from volunteer enlistment.
There is one more that i know of and it's called the Miracle years.
To keep the numbers up, so when the time comes to deploy..they can deploy.
Yes, until the end of the Viet War, then it went away.
The draft in the US for World War II began in September 1940 with the Selective Training and Service Act. The first peacetime draft in American history, it was later expanded after the US entered the war in 1941.
Juliet Reeve has written: 'Sourcebook on peacetime conscription' -- subject(s): Draft