The issue of conscription or mandatory military service tore Canada apart during the First World War. Pictured here ... fewer than one in 20 were French. Of English Canadian volunteers, 70% ...

When World War One started millions of men volunteered to fight. Were they fearless patriots doing their duty or unlucky victims of government propaganda? Propaganda and conscription Many young ...

The first shots of World War One are fired in Africa ... On 27 January the government introduces conscription. All single men aged 18 to 41 can now be sent to war, although thousands are exempted ...

And, arguably, nothing illustrates better the relevance to the Ireland of Tilly’s argument than the conscription crisis of the spring of 1918. Within weeks of the World War One beginning in the ...

The Vietnam War saw the United States military draft approximately 1.9 million ... World War I, World War II, the Korean War, ...

During the Second World War, Prime Minister Mackenzie King dodged a political bullet called conscription ... announced that he was now accepting it. One Minister called the act the most cold ...

"We do not rearm because we want war ... conscription, after Norway in 2015 and Sweden in 2017 – also over security concerns. But Norway and Sweden are still the only two countries in the world ...