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

During World War One, conscription initially applied to single men aged 16 to 40. The upper limit was later raised to 51, ...

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% ...

Australians, including many thousands of Diggers fighting in Europe, voted against conscription during the Great War. It was a blow to then-prime minister Billy Hughes.

One proposed a solution to this decline ... Britain introduced conscription in the months leading up to World War II. It saw single men aged 20 to 22 requiring six months of military training ...

during World War I. In 1916 and 1917, Australia’s servicemen and women were asked to vote on military conscription: could the Australian government force men to enlist and serve in war overseas?