President Roosevelt's signing of the Selective Training and Service Act on September 16, 1940, began the first peacetime draft in the United States. It also reestablished the Selective Service System as an independent agency responsible for identifying young men and facilitating their military service
On September 16, 1940, the United States instituted the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, which required all men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for the draft. This was the first peacetime draft in United States' history.
The first peacetime conscription in the United States, the act required all American men between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for the draft. Draftees were selected by national lottery.
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Roosevelt states that the United States are there to free the Filipino people who have been oppressed, even going as far as to claim that they've never dreamed of having such freedom, while Mark Twain claims that they will only subjugate and oppress the Filipino people themselves.
It was the "c. Nineteenth Amendment" to the Constitution that gave women the right to vote in the United States. This was the culmination of many years of effort.
