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    The document compares the use of conscription in Canada during World War 1 and World War 2. It notes that while both wars saw a lack of volunteers that necessitated conscription, the implementation and impact differed - conscription was more controversial and resulted in more casualties during WW1, while conscripts in WW2 were mandated for home defense first and had to volunteer for overseas combat. Both governments initially tried to avoid conscription but enacted it due to battlefield needs.

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    The differences and similarities between the First World War and the Second World War in Canada.

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    The document compares the use of conscription in Canada during World War 1 and World War 2. It notes that while both wars saw a lack of volunteers that necessitated conscription, the implementation and impact differed - conscription was more controversial and resulted in more casualties during WW1, while conscripts in WW2 were mandated for home defense first and had to volunteer for overseas combat. Both governments initially tried to avoid conscription but enacted it due to battlefield needs.

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    The document compares the use of conscription in Canada during World War 1 and World War 2. It notes that while both wars saw a lack of volunteers that necessitated conscription, the implementation and impact differed - conscription was more controversial and resulted in more casualties during WW1, while conscripts in WW2 were mandated for home defense first and had to volunteer for overseas combat. Both governments initially tried to avoid conscription but enacted it due to battlefield needs.

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    Amman Zaman

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    Assignment 2.4: Conscription
    Similarities

    Differences

    - Conscripted soldiers made it to


    the front in both wars.

    - The amount of deaths and


    injuries the Canadian Army
    experienced during World War 1 was
    more serious, making conscription
    more needed.

    - The only people that had a


    problem with conscription for the most
    part were the French Canadians.

    - To prevent controversy,
    conscripted soldiers were mandated
    to provide home defence, and had to
    volunteer to fight overseas during the
    Second World War.

    - Both times, the government


    was forced to use conscription
    because there were a lack of
    volunteers after the first battle of each
    war.

    - The need for conscription in


    the Second World War became
    smaller because the majority of the
    injured soldiers healed and went back
    to the battlefield.

    - Both Sir Borden and Prime


    Minister Mackenzie were trying to
    avoid Conscription in World War 1 and
    2.

    - Much more conscripted


    soldiers ended up in the battlefield
    during World War 1 than World War 2.

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