The Importance Of Fighting In The Great War

The "England Expects National Service" poster branches out to every citizen in the Nation to help strengthen the war effort. The large statue of the soldier shows immense pride for the Nation and it persuades those to join the Navy to fufill the expectations of the government. The techniques used in this poster are "bandwagon" and "plain folks". In addition, the use of painting everyday people below the soldier shows that anyone could join and takes more than just one courageous person to make a difference. This poster shows pride for one's country and is very effective at illustrating the fact that ANYONE can help.

“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.” –Adolf Hitler. In 1939, life was about to change as everyone knew it. WWII was just beginning and the whole world would be affected. Germany, Italy, Japan, Great Britain, France, and Russia have entered into a long and expensive journey. The Axis Powers and Allies knew what they were getting into, so they decided to come up with a way to get the citizens involved. Men and women played an important role in getting the support the country needed; they became poster designers. The poster designer’s job was to create posters that drew up certain beliefs about the enemies. These men and women became psychological

The Great War , or as it is known now, World War One was a global conflict fought between the Allied Powers ; Great Britain, France, Russia, and the United States along will other smaller nations and the Central Powers ; Germany, Austria – Hungary, Turkey/Ottoman Empire and other small nations from 1914 to 1918. World War One began from a series of tumultuous events, that in turn affected the balance of alliances that had been made between countries at that time in the world.

Propaganda is design to maintain public anger to the enemies, like the German atrocities creating the depiction of them to be inhuman and monstrous. They also used other methods of idealising Australian soldiers, creating them to seem strong and bold, having the high life. The government promoted this through the uses of enlistments. These are posters that pressure men to sign up through the slogans that create guilt for not enlisting also making an illusion of it being an exciting experience that you will never be ale to get again. An example of this was 'Mate! Be a sport, hold my gun while I get a wink o'sleep' This poster portrays the WW1 as being a fun, relaxed, easy going adventure with friends. The title of this poster is 'Mate! be a sport', this poster was created in South Australia, 1916. It was handed out as a pamphlet by the state library of South

The men who didn’t sign up would feel like they were left out of the glory, as the victorious soldiers would proudly march. Even though it seems like a harsh way to make people join, the government was only thinking about the good of the public, as having a weak army would eventually fall heavy on the people. Another example of propaganda is the “Uncle Sam” poster which was first introduced during WW1. It says “I want YOU for the U.S. Army”. This technique of propaganda made the message personal, so that when somebody looked at it, they felt that the message was personally directed towards them. The media went so far in some posters, as to portray the war as an “opportunity to explore foreign lands”, that they would otherwise, not get to see. Although some argue that some propaganda techniques were immoral and were lies to the people, this is not true. The US media never lied to the people; it only modified the truth so that the negative aspects were not shown to the people. This was all done in the best interest of the people because if the negative aspects of the war were shown, there would nobody who enlisted for the military and the US would lose the war, resulting in a negative way for the people. Also, publishing every aspect of the war for the public would lead to many split opinions and civil disturbances.

The goal of this propaganda poster is to promote enlistment during WW1 for the British army. Persuading and informing citizens. As they were having challenges on the number of recruitment of volunteers. The poster depicts the father of a girl and boy sitting on an armchair. The boy is playing with toy soldiers on the ground while the daughter is sitting on her father’s lap, pointing to the book and questioning her father; ‘Daddy, what did you do in the great war?’ The father looks at the audience in a face concerned face. The poster has a single sentence located at the bottom. There are vivid colours in the poster which represents the wealth and comfort the family has. The intended audience focuses on both the fit British men/fathers and women.

During the war period the government had to ensure that they could enlist as many men as possible to join the war effort so propaganda techniques were used to encourage men to join. Source B2 shows a propaganda poster which, these types of posters were created with the interpretation that men were not joining the war as they were cowards. The source is from recruiting pamphlet for the king Shropshire light infantry in 1915. The target of using children to provoke beliefs of cochies is deemed through the propaganda poster. The interpretation is based on the government point of view in persuading men to change their thought about the war, through the propaganda poster we are deemed that men had to sense guilt and embarrassment towards their children, as what would your children think of you, as a starter of their country, would they be proud of the beliefs you embraced. As being propaganda poster is exaggerates within the source which compromises the reliability as it forces men to join the war and abscond the beliefs which contradict their policy of life. However being a primary interpretation it deems negative effects because the poster forces men to feel guilt and embarrassment through the concept of family.

No, not on the battlefield, I do not have the stamina nor the tolerance to be able to fight in the war, although I would probably do the best I could from the house or city I was living in by making food, making or tending clothes, and even attacking small bands of the British. I am not one to maintain long periods of time away from family and friends. The housing in the winter of 1777 to 1778 was horrendous (according to the Valley Forge: Would you have Quit? Background Essay). The average space was a 16 foot by 14 foot tent housing 12 people in one tent, leaving only 18 ⅔ feet per person not including the space it took for supplies. Each tent had no beds whatsoever, just straw and a mud floor. Cold and smoke, from no ventilation other than

The first piece of propaganda that is used depicts a few British citizens behind the British flag, with an outline of the country on it. One of the types of persuasion it uses is the bandwagon appeal, which convinces others to join or do whatever the propaganda is suggesting, because others are doing it. Patriotism is used as well. Great Britain's flag and the country itself is on the paper, making it patriotic.

was used to encourage men to join the army. Lord kitchener appeared on a poster with the words,

After the bombings of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, posters were used to support the cause of joining the war and being okay with entering it. They also had war slogans, and brought a sense of duty and gave a vengeful spirit to both the soldiers and the people at home who were supporting them (Navarro). America during World War II created a famous poster that said “Stop this monster that stops at nothing. Produce to the limit!” This poster has a monster with two heads, one being a Nazi head and the other head was represented by the Japanese (PBS). Several American posters were derogatory posters. These posters had the Japanese being represented by monkeys. This was a way to look down upon the humanity of the Japanese (Navarro). Posters also served to help reconstruct a positive image of business, because American capitalism had been badly ruptured during the 1930’s (Bird). The most important reason for using posters in America were that it contained catchy slogans and phrases, which became part of a popular culture and part of the American society

The content of these propaganda messages promoted many different messages such as advertisement for army enrolment, a famous example of this is the Uncle Sam “I want you for the U.S Army” poster used in the United States of America during both of the World Wars, asking civilians to not waste food or collect scrap metal for the creation of weapons, to help fund the war by buying war bonds, asking people to limit careless talk about the war due to enemy spies that could overhear and as an effect endanger the lives of fellow countrymen and keeping people productive so the that the war campaign would be well supplied.

Additionally, in the BL.UK, “The War Plotters of Wall Street, published in 1915, is an example of this type of propaganda. It tells of a plot by unscrupulous financiers to draw the USA into a war which would be against its own interests and ruinous to its economy.” In detail, often propaganda would help people to believe a specific idea which was made through ideas that everyone believed. Through the ideas that everyone believed people were more likely to be convinced because of how frequent these ideas would be heard. Also, according to an article from Stanford, “Nearly all propaganda aimed at soldiers centered around making them doubt their cause and their reason for being wherever they were fighting. Pamphlets also asked enemy soldiers what they were fighting for, sometimes giving them false, conspiracy-style reasons their country was fighting. This could mean dropping pamphlets vividly describing how their wives and girlfriends back home were cheating on them while they were gone.” By all means, others could therefore also make propaganda to convince people to not support an idea because of fear towards an idea that they wish could never happen to them in hopes that this would not become a true reality to them. Throughout history, propaganda has been used to convince people to do a simple action or task. The use of propaganda often can cause people to become paranoid, becoming afraid, join the army or even leaving the

Propaganda can be viewed and described in many different ways. These many different views and descriptions are based on the eye of the beholder and their views. In the propaganda poster 'Are we afraid? No!’ what I see happening is that Britain and its’ colonies standing together to fight a common threat. But, the irony in this is that they are fighting against an imperialistic country while they are still imperialistic as well.

Years ago, a war so devastating that it catalyzed history greatly broke out. It bred a great, whole new branch of history: “The Great War”. By the end of The Great War, everyone had lost what they loved the most. None of the leaders imagined their countries or nations to morph into these vast wastelands. A Versailles Treaty was then instituted to officially end The Great War, but little did they know, it was their ticket to another.