Draft, call up
The SOS or Save Our Sons movement was formed in 1964 along with the Youth Against Conscription organisation. SOS was mainly made up of women who were against conscription, also known as National Service.
Hitler introduced conscription to get men from aged 19 to sign up for the army.
There are no perfectly correct answer to the issue of conscription. The USA gave that policy up decades ago with no negative results. Other nations such as Israel must have fair conscription laws. The answer to the issue depends on the circumstances of each nation.
Yes it was but for a very short time. There was an election known as the "khaki election" where two candidates, Laurier and Borden were running for prime minister. Broden was for conscription Laurier was against. Borden won but barely even enlisted anyone, 100,000 enlisted but there were so many loopholes in the system that 90% of them got out of it.
Draft, call up
Yes, and he brought in a better call-up law than the North did.
The SOS or Save Our Sons movement was formed in 1964 along with the Youth Against Conscription organisation. SOS was mainly made up of women who were against conscription, also known as National Service.
Conscription was used by the Government to call-up (recruit) men of between certain ages to join the armed forces.
To call it a day means to finish up or stop a task and go home.
Hitler introduced conscription to get men from aged 19 to sign up for the army.
There are several names for it, depending on where it's implemented. In the US, it's known as the draft. Generally, a mandatory military service requirement is known as conscription, and different governments may call it by various names (e.g., National Service).
To be a National Guardsman is your decision, but refusing a deployment can get you into trouble.
Because, by the time they reached the minimum age to be called up (18 for men, 20 for women) - Conscription in the UK had ended.
There are no perfectly correct answer to the issue of conscription. The USA gave that policy up decades ago with no negative results. Other nations such as Israel must have fair conscription laws. The answer to the issue depends on the circumstances of each nation.
Because of conscription, armies expanded significantly between 1890 and 1914. Basically armies doubled in size.
Conscripts were people called up by the Government to serve a short period in the armed forces (known as National Service) - or for the duration in wartime. Conscription is no longer used in Britain.