THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE VIETNAM WAR
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The draft was targeted only at younger men and not older men.
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People making over a certain amount of money could defer their draft.
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The children of congressional leaders were exempt from the draft.
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It pulled in a disproportionate number of poor and working-class youth.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Selective Service System during the Vietnam war was highly controversial, especially because early in the war draftees came disproportionately from poor, working-class, rural, and minority populations.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Selective Service System during the Vietnam war was highly controversial, especially because early in the war draftees came disproportionately from poor, working-class, rural, and minority populations.
Detailed explanation-3: -The government drafted over 1.5 million men into military service during the Vietnam War. Most of these men were from poor or working-class backgrounds, because college students and men with jobs deemed important were allowed to defer, or postpone, their military service.
Detailed explanation-4: -What is meant by “draft-dodging”? Why was this a problem for the United States? Soldiers who evaded joining the army by feeling to Canada. This was a problem for the USA because it showed the growing divide in American culture and the lowering morale among soldiers over the war effort in Vietnam.