Pros And Cons Of Conscription In Ww1

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Conscription in WW1 was forcing to take men 18- 40 years old for military service even if they did not want to unless if they were widowed with children or ministers of a religion. Everybody knows that there are a lot of cons too conscription some of these cons are violating free will to people because they don’t have a right to pick if they want to go to war or not. One of the pros of conscription is that it without it no one will join the war. Another pro is that it helps out with nationalism so they can actually say that they care about their country and they are willing to do anything and everything they could to help out in the war even if they leave their families for 8 years.

Conscription was important in WW1 because it gave countries

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