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I assume you mean "conscription". It is when a government forces the people to join the military. In the US, we usually call it "the draft", which hasn't been used since Vietnam. It was used during World War I as a way to quickly increase the size of the countries' armies.

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Q: What was conscrition and why did it occur during ww1?
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