#selective service
April 6, 1917 - The United States officially enters World War I
“Two days after the U.S. Senate voted 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorses the declaration by a vote of 373 to 50, and America formally enters World War I.
When World War I erupted in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson pledged neutrality for the United States, a position that the vast majority of Americans favored. Britain, however, was one of America’s closest trading partners, and tension soon arose between the United States and Germany over the latter’s attempted quarantine of the British Isles. Several U.S. ships traveling to Britain were damaged or sunk by German mines, and in February 1915 Germany announced unrestricted warfare against all ships, neutral or otherwise, that entered the war zone around Britain. One month later, Germany announced that a German cruiser had sunk the William P. Frye, a private American vessel. President Wilson was outraged, but the German government apologized and called the attack an unfortunate mistake.
On May 7, the British-owned Lusitania ocean liner was torpedoed without warning just off the coast of Ireland. Of the 1,959 passengers, 1,198 were killed, including 128 Americans. The German government maintained that the Lusitania was carrying munitions, but the U.S. demanded reparations and an end to German attacks on unarmed passenger and merchant ships. In August, Germany pledged to see to the safety of passengers before sinking unarmed vessels, but in November sunk an Italian liner without warning, killing 272 people, including 27 Americans. With these attacks, public opinion in the United States began to turn irrevocably against Germany.
In 1917, Germany, determined to win its war of attrition against the Allies, announced the resumption of unrestricted warfare in war-zone waters. Three days later, the United States broke diplomatic relations with Germany, and just hours after that the American liner Housatonic was sunk by a German U-boat. On February 22, Congress passed a $250 million arms appropriations bill intended to make the United States ready for war. In late March, Germany sunk four more U.S. merchant ships, and on April 2 President Wilson appeared before Congress and called for a declaration of war against Germany. Four days later, his request was granted.
On June 26, the first 14,000 U.S. infantry troops landed in France to begin training for combat. After four years of bloody stalemate along the western front, the entrance of America’s well-supplied forces into the conflict marked a major turning point in the war and helped the Allies to victory. When the war finally ended, on November 11, 1918, more than two million American soldiers had served on the battlefields of Western Europe, and some 50,000 of them had lost their lives.“
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April 3, 1860 - The Pony Express begins
April 9, 1959 - NASA introduces America’s first astronauts
April 12, 1963 - Martin Luther King, Jr. writes "Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
April 20, 1902 - Marie and Pierre Curie isolate radium
April 24, 1800 - Library of Congress established
April 30, 1803 - United States and France conclude the Louisiana Purchase
ThisSelective Service Poster from World War I can be found in the online collection of the McLeod County Historical Society & Museum.
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Feminist claim they want gender equality, but have remained silent for nearly 40 years on the gender exclusion of women from registering for the draft under the Selective Service law. This silence didn’t stop them from incessantly bitching about the gender exclusion of women from combat roles by the military as sexism though. Hypocrites to the nth degree.
Fast forward 35 years and the military kowtowed to feminist bitching, revoking the female exclusion from combat roles. However, the female exclusion from the draft was justified due to their inability to fill combat roles. With the latter gender exclusion obliterated, the former now has no merit.
A federal district court in Houston has held that because women are now permitted to serve in combat roles in the U.S. military, all women must be obligated to register for the draft, just as men do.
I’m dying to hear the feminist response to this. Agree and they alienate the 50 million women who have zero interest in fighting in combat. Disagree and they once again prove themselves to be total hypocrites.
LMAO
