Politics
Conscription
Compulsory enlistment in national service, mainly military service, enforced by law. By 1914 the only substantial armies still dependent on voluntary enlistment were the British and American; Britain introduced conscription to full-time military service for the first time in January 1916 and abolished it in 1920.
Mentioned in
- Chapter I The Long Fuse §1 Europe in 1914: The Great Powers at a Glance§9 Armies and War Plans
- Chapter V The Year of Attrition §1 The Plan for 1916: Chantilly§5 The Easter Rising
- Chapter VI The Year of Revolutions §2 America Enters, and the World Follows§7 Caporetto: The Italian Disaster
- Chapter VII The Last Gamble §4 Georgette, the Marne, and Why It Failed
- Chapter VIII The Reckoning and the Remaking §3 The Treaty of Versailles
- Chapter IX In the Trenches Overview§9 Who the Soldiers Were
- Chapter XII The Home Fronts Overview§2 Conscription and Its Politics
- Chapter XIII A World on Fire §10 Legacies: Nationalism After the War