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The US draft for World War II started in October of 1940 - it was the first peacetime draft in US history. President Franklin Roosevelt did this because, although there was not enough popular support to open enter World War II (Pearl Harbor fixed that later on), he knew someday they would enter, and he wanted to be prepared in order to make the war as short and bloodless as possible. That required a large mass of trained civilian soldiers.
In 1940, men between the ages of twenty-one and forty-five were required to register, and the term of service was one year. However, once the US entered the war, they needed far more soldiers than they predicted. On December 19, 1941, the President allowed the extension of the draft, with a few changes. The age for registration was now between the ages of eighteen and sixty-five, but only those ages eighteen to forty-five available for immediate conscription. Those drafted also had to serve the length of the war plus six months.
The WW2 draft lasted from 1940 to 1947, when the bill expired. Around eleven million men were drafted into service during these eight years.
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