Editing Mobilization (section)

===Mobilization in World War II===
[[File:Hevosia lähdössä talvisotaan.jpg|thumb|[[Finnhorse|Finnish horses]] and carriages requisitioned in the mobilization before the [[Winter War]]]]
[[File:Jatkosodan yleinen liikekannallepano julistettu 20.6.1941.jpg|thumb|The general mobilization launch of the [[Continuation War]] was announced on 20 June 1941 in Finland]]
[[File:RIAN archive 662757 New recruits during mobilization.jpg|thumb|New recruits during mobilization in Moscow after [[Nazi Germany]] [[Eastern Front (World War II)|invaded the Soviet Union]], 23 June 1941]]
[[Second Polish Republic|Poland]] partly mobilized its troops on August 24, 1939, and fully mobilized on August 30, 1939, following the increased confrontations with [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] since [[Anglo-Polish military alliance|March 1939]]. On September 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland, which prompted both France and Britain to [[British and French declaration of war on Germany|declare war]] on Germany. However, they were slow to mobilize, and by the time Poland had been overrun by the Axis powers, only [[Phoney War|minor operations]] had been carried out by the French at the [[Saar River]].

Canada actually carried out a partial mobilization on August 25, 1939, in anticipation of the growing [[diplomatic crisis]]. On September 1, 1939, the [[Canadian Active Service Force]] (a corps-sized force of two divisions) was mobilized even though war was not declared by Canada until September 10, 1939. Only one division went overseas in December 1939, and the government hoped to follow a "limited liability" war policy. When France was invaded in May 1940, the Canadian government realized that would not be possible and mobilized three additional divisions, beginning their overseas employment in August 1940 with the dispatch of the [[2nd Canadian Division]] (some units of which were deployed to [[Iceland in World War II|Iceland]] and [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]] for garrison duty before moving to the UK). Canada also enacted the [[National Resources Mobilization Act]] in 1940, which among other things compelled men to serve in the military, though conscripts mobilized under the NRMA did not serve overseas until 1944. Conscripts did, however, serve in the [[Aleutian Islands Campaign]] in 1943 though the anticipated Japanese defense never materialized due to the evacuation of the enemy garrison before the landings. Service in the Aleutians was not considered "overseas" as technically the islands were part of North America.

The [[Military history of the United Kingdom during World War II|United Kingdom]] mobilized 22% of its total population for direct military service, more than any other nation in the WWII era.<ref name="Axelrod2007">{{cite book|author=Alan Axelrod|title=Encyclopedia of World War II|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LbWFgjW6KX8C&pg=PA399|year=2007|publisher=H W Fowler|isbn=978-0-8160-6022-1|page=399}}</ref>

Up to 34 million soldiers served in the [[Red Army]] during World War II, representing the largest military force in world history.<ref>{{Citation | first = ГФ [Krivosheev, GF] | last = Кривошеев | script-title = ru:Россия и СССР в войнах XX века: потери вооруженных сил. Статистическое исследование |trans-title=Russia and the USSR in the wars of the 20th century: losses of the Armed Forces. A Statistical Study | language = ru}}</ref>