WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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No one wanted to enlist in the U.S. military when the war began.
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Once war was declared, the U.S. needed to quickly boost the size of the military.
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No women could join the armed forces until later in the war.
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The U.S. economy was not affected by the declaration of war.
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Detailed explanation-1: -On May 18, 1917, Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which authorized the Federal Government to temporarily expand the military through conscription. The act eventually required all men between the ages of 21 to 45 to register for military service.
Detailed explanation-2: -The reason for the Selective Service Act, though, was that American men had not volunteered en masse or certainly not in the numbers needed to raise, train, and deploy an army quickly after the United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917.
Detailed explanation-3: -In January 1916 the Military Service Act was passed. This imposed conscription on all single men aged between 18 and 41, but exempted the medically unfit, clergymen, teachers and certain classes of industrial worker.
Detailed explanation-4: -By the end of World War I in November 1918, some 24 million men had registered under the Selective Service Act. Of the almost 4.8 million Americans who eventually served in the war, some 2.8 million had been drafted.