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  2. Category:World War II-related lists - Wikipedia

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  3. Ethnic minorities in the United States Armed Forces during ...

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    Hispanic Americans, also referred to as Latinos, served in all elements of the American armed forces in the war.They fought in every major American battle in the war. According to House concurrent resolution 253, 400,000 to 500,000 Hispanic Americans served in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II, out of a total of 16,000

  4. The Old Man's Draft - Wikipedia

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    This was well in advance of the country's actual entry into World War II, but in clear anticipation of the likelihood of involvement. Registration began with those aged between 21 and 35, and gradually broadened to men aged between 18 and 64 as needs increased after the country entered the war in December 1941. [2]

  5. Conscription in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The World War I system served as a model for that of World War II. President Roosevelt's signing of the Selective Training and Service Act on September 16, 1940, began the first peacetime draft in the United States. The 1940 law instituted conscription in peacetime, requiring the registration of all men between 21 and 35.

  6. Conscription - Wikipedia

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    Conscription into a full-time military service had only been instituted twice by the government of Canada, during both world wars. Conscription into the Canadian Expeditionary Force was practiced in the last year of the First World War in 1918. During the Second World War, conscription for home defence was introduced in 1940 and for overseas ...

  7. History of the United States (1917–1945) - Wikipedia

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    The history of the United States from 1917 to 1945 was marked by World War I, the interwar period, the Great Depression, and World War II. The United States tried and failed to broker a peace settlement for World War I , then entered the war after Germany launched a submarine campaign against U.S. merchant ships that were supplying Germany's ...

  8. What Is the Consumer Confidence Index and What’s It ... - AOL

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    The Consumer Confidence Index is a reflection of the discussions that take place at kitchen tables, at water coolers and more commonly, on remote-work platforms like Slack every day across the ...

  9. United States home front during World War II - Wikipedia

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    Miller, Sally M., and Daniel A. Cornford eds. American Labor in the Era of World War II (1995), essays by historians, mostly on California; Lichtenstein, Nelson. Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II (2003) Wynn, Neil A. The Afro-American and the Second World War (1977) Vatter, Howard. The U.S. Economy in World War II Columbia University ...

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