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Unit images and Lesson 3 use as its main resource posters produced by the United States government and others during the Second World War that were intended to encourage Americans to demonstrate civic responsibility by producing goods and services needed for the war effort.

Exhibition: Produce for Victory: Posters on the Home Front, 1941–1945
www.americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/exhibition.cfm?key=38&exkey=134

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Produce for Victory