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  2. Victory garden - Wikipedia

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    Come into the garden dad!, World War I poster from Canada (c. 1918), Archives of Ontario poster collection (I0016363)Victory Gardens became popular in Canada in 1917. Under the Ministry of Agriculture's campaign, "A Vegetable Garden for Every Home", residents of cities, towns and villages utilized backyard spaces to plant vegetables for personal use and war eff

  3. Economic history of World War I - Wikipedia

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    The economic history of World War I covers the methods used by the First World War (1914–1918), as well as related postwar issues such as war debts and reparations. It also covers the economic mobilization of labour, industry, and agriculture leading to economic failure.

  4. War Agricultural Executive Committee - Wikipedia

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    With the help of the War Agricultural Executive Committees, or "War Ags", [5] British farmers increased the total productive land in the UK by 1.7 million acres between 1939 and the Spring of 1940. [ 6 ]

  5. Women's Land Army - Wikipedia

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    The Women's Land Army (WLA) was a British civilian organisation created in 1917 by the Board of Agriculture during the First World War to bring women into work in agriculture, replacing men called up to the military. Women who worked for the WLA were commonly known as Land Girls (Land Lassies). [1]

  6. Turnip Winter - Wikipedia

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    Germany's massive military recruitment played a direct role in this, as all areas of the economy suffered from lack of manpower, including agriculture. [1] The loss of the potato crop forced the German population to subsist on Swedish turnip or rutabaga as an alternative. [citation needed]

  7. Russia in the First World War - Wikipedia

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    For the Précis of History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, published in 1938, "the imperialist war was provoked by the unequal development of the capitalist countries, the disruption of the balance between the main powers, and the need to proceed with a new division of the world by means of war": those who, like the Mensheviks and ...

  8. History of agriculture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The history of agriculture in the United States covers the period from the first English settlers to the present day. In Colonial America, agriculture was the primary livelihood for 90% of the population, and most towns were shipping points for the export of agricultural products.

  9. History of the United States (1917–1945) - Wikipedia

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    The history of the United States from 1917 to 1945 was marked by World War I, the interwar period, the Great Depression, and World War II. The United States tried and failed to broker a peace settlement for World War I , then entered the war after Germany launched a submarine campaign against U.S. merchant ships that were supplying Germany's ...