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IX. Life on the Homefront<br />

• Mobilization end Depression, spur<br />

prosperity<br />

• Americans volunteer help (victory<br />

gardens)<br />

• Office of Price Administration (OPA)<br />

institute rationing of key goods (food, gas)<br />

• To ensure support, Office of War<br />

Information (1942) sell war at home<br />

• Near unanimous support for war; popular<br />

culture see it as fight for US way of life<br />

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