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Amiraneli [1.4K]
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What was the Selective Training and Service Act

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kirza4 [7]3 years ago
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This was the first peacetime conscription bill enacted in the USA, requiring all men between 21 and 45 to register for the draft. It was drafted before the US joined WW2, and was part of a plan for the US to be prepared if war ever did break out, as it did.
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