The Kalahari Desert is a large arid to semi-arid sandy area in southern Kgalagadi Africa extending 900,000 kmÂ² (362,500 sq. mi.), covering much of Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa. It has huge tracts of excellent grazing after good rains.
U.S. enters World War I. On April 6, 1917, two days after the U.S. Senate votes 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorses the decision by a vote of 373 to 50, and the United States formally enters the First World War. When World War I erupted in 1914,...
it was expanded to eighteen months in 1941 when the united states entered world war ii service was required until six months after the end of the war the first draft number ever picked for world war ii was 158 picked by a blindfolded henry l stimson out of a goldfish bowlonscription was next used after the united states entered world war i in 1917 the first peacetime conscription came with the selective service act of 1940 which established the selective service system as an independent agency