How did the draft work?
Local draft boards were set up from coast to coast
Each male registered was given a number between 1-7836
In Washington, papers with the numbers 1 through 7,836 printed on them were put into capsules, one number to a capsule
The capsules were dumped into a giant fishbowl and then stirred
Finally, the capsules were drawn from the bowl one by one to establish the draft order
If your number was chosen, you were now officially part of the US militay
158 was the first number chosen (6175 men were drafted with that number)
Atlantic Charter
Signed in August 1941 between the US FDR and Great Britain (Churchill)
Defined the Allied goals for the post-war world
No territorial gain
No territorial changes without the peoples support from those countries
Self determination
Free trade
Destruction of the nazis and then setting up a peaceful government in germany
Freedom of the seas
- Abandon the use of force, disarmament and a stronger League of Nation
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