Rationing Food, the Government Controlling the Economy, Encouraging Women to Enter

Rationing food, the government controlling the economy, encouraging women to enter the work force, holding patriotic parades, sending veterans on speaking tours: all of these were designed to

A) keep the populace at home supportive of the war effort.
B) encourage the general public to purchase war bonds.
C) show the enemy that your country deserved to win more than theirs did.
D) distract the general public from the fact that so many young men were dying every day.
E) turn the civil population into a productive machine to fight the enemy.