World+War+I+Propaganda

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WORLD WAR 1 PROPAGANDA


 * ** Propaganda is information used to influence public opinion. Each of the nations which participated in WW1 from 1914 -1918 used propaganda posters to recruit men. And money resources to sustain the military campaign, wartime posters were not only used to recruit men but to also get money to support the military funds. The United States produced more propaganda posters than any other single nation.Propaganda influenced WW1 by a popular attempt to sway america just before its involvement. ** ** // The government used propaganda so that the people only knew what the government wanted them to know. The government also controlled newspapers so that all the information that was going to be given out was what they wanted the reader to read . The government printed headlines that were designed to stir up emotions regardless of weather they were accurate or not. British newspapers published causality figures that were accepted to the government but less than accurate. // **

====//** To gain support for the war effort, officials in the United States hired skilled artists to create posters that would build public support and increase recruitment of men. After declaring war president Wilson appointed newspaper reporter and political reformer George Creel to the head of the CPI (committee on public information). Creel encouraged Americans to support the war, Creel hired movie stars to speak on behalf of the world effort. German propaganda organizations distributed over a million pamphlets during 1914. Propaganda did not have the impact of the radio but the posters urged support for the war, magazines were a favored propaganda tool. The government issued Magazine War Guide with tips on how to support the war effort. Womans magazines favored propagnda it aimed at housewives,the magazines showed women coping heroically with the sacr **//ifices of the war.The womans magazines carried many tips for housewives,radio soap operas carried plot lines about war time rationing. Hollywood sided with the Allies so they adapted standard plots and serials to feature Nazis in place of their usual gangster villains.Leaflet were dropped at locations to people who were unreachable and were a afraid to turn on foreign radios broadcasts,radios were wildly used in the United states large scale making other media less practical then they were for other nations. Themes for propaganda Hitler often appeared in positions of ridicule. American propaganda of Japan showed that they appearer foreign ,bizarre and uncivilized American enemy.====

====//** Major campaign's were launched to encourage women to enter the work force and convince their husbands that they should go to war. The government targeted housewives to join the workforce because women who were already employed would move to higher essential jobs.The image of the glamor girl was adapted to wartime conditions by showing women doing factory work as attractive women,and overly exaggerated that women could keep their looks while performing war work. It suggested that the women support there brother,boyfriend,or husband in the war. Key symbolic figures such as Rosie the Riveter an MRS.Casey Jones appeared in posters across the country Representing strong women who supported their husbands in war effort. Due to all the propaganda targeting females wartime duties the number of women working jumped 15%. Books and magazines had depictions of the need for women labor,major magazines covers,movies,and popular songs depicted women workers.Magazines were urged to have their fiction suitable for wartime. **//====