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Seeing the Big Picture

Match the documents up according to these 9 ways they could help:

  1. Enlist or support relatives who are fighting
  2. Buy bonds from the government to help finance the war
  3. Be loyal to the government and tell on those who aren’t
  4. Work in a wartime industry, even switch from your regular job
  5. Work instead of staying at home if you’re a woman
  6. Volunteer skills or time to help the nation or soldiers
  7. Eat more of some things and less or none of others
  8. Save sugar for the soldiers
  9. Grow crops to increase the food supply

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