The Influence Of Propaganda During The World War II

During World War II propaganda was ubiquitous. It consisted of a wide range of carriers including leaflets, radio, television, and most importantly posters. Posters were used based on their appeal: they were colorful, creative, concise, and mentally stimulating. Posters often portrayed the artist's views on the war. They demonstrated the artist concern for the war, their hopes for the war, and reflected the way enemies were envisioned. Posters also show a nations political status: they reflect a nations allies and enemies, how the nation saw itself, and its greatest hopes and fears of the war.

Needless to say, every one of the wars just mentioned was advertised as a defensive, moralistic, and completely national expedition. Bismarck even went so far as to make an unworkable treaty with Austria so that he could claim, when Austria broke it, that he was waging war in defense of the sacredness of treaties. But no one should be deceived by such propaganda. All these wars were waged in order to maintain certain groups in control in the belligerent countries.

Propaganda, though not the most effective war time strategy, allows people to come together as one to contribute to the success of the country as a whole. However with this idea, there is also the idea that they are not whole truths being told by governments within countries. Propaganda is a form of a lie seen in both North Korea in the book Escape from Camp 14, and in one of the world’s darkest times, World War II; the world allows these lies to surface due to the fact that they do no outwardly hurt another race.

what techniques used in world war II propaganda? well first we need to establish what is a propaganda? a Propaganda is information provided to promote a specific cause. that can be done in many ways. The information can be completely true or it can be an embellishment. Creators of propaganda tend to select information carefully, avoiding anything that does not promote their cause. propaganda was used to increase support for the war and commitment to an Allied victory.

Propaganda in general is the idea of getting others to believe in one’s own beliefs. Propaganda is the “attempt to influence behavior…by affecting through the use of mass media of communications, the manner in which a mass audience perceives and ascribes meaning to the material world.”1 Propaganda was a major part of Germany’s way to brain wash people into following Hitler and his army. The theme of Hitler and Goebbels, (Paul Joseph Goebbels, was appointed Hitler’s Reichspropagandaleiter, the Nazis national director of propaganda), using propaganda, “was to merge the traditional German patriotism with Nazi ideological motifs”2, this was basically used from1919 to 1945.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor from Japan on December 7, 1941. American President Franklin Roosevelt declared a former declaration of Allied war aims with British prime minister Winston Churchill. Japan intended the bombing of Pearl Harbour to cripple America from interfering with their plans of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Pearl Harbour was a military camp filled with ships and planes, the bombing destroyed many valuable equipment and many soldiers were killed and injured. The United States shared many goals with Britain and Russia to defeat Germany, while acting defensive against Japan. The propaganda made by the General Motors Company was used to encourage the public to produce more goods and funds to the war efforts. Propaganda posters

During World War II the country used propaganda to influence its own people to help the cause, or be helped by their own government. Not only did their own government used the concept of propaganda to gain more trust over its people. As a result they used propaganda techniques to give a visual interpretation of what they wanted to message out to the public. For example in this time period the government made a poster indicating the danger in venereal disease. To point out that women prostitutes are the carriers of this disease and if, " a man suffering from Venereal Disease," wants to be wed. Unfortunately if he ,"who infects his wife commits a vile crime against her and children yet unborn," is as shameful as the person who gave him the disease.

Propaganda is the, information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. People today still use popoganda everyday to pursuade people to either buy something to or do something for that company. It was no different during World War II. During World War II There were many instances of propaganda used all throughout the War to try and convince people to think or act in a certain way. Most of the Techniques used for the propaganda in World War II were based on fear, and if everyone did not do there part we would lose the war.

World War I had a massive impact in Europe and North America and all over the world. It had an influence on all the spheres of individuals, especially in Europe and North America. The word propaganda is defined as the "doctrines, ideas, arguments, facts, or allegations spread by deliberate effort through any medium of communication in order to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause" (Dombrowski, 1999, 59). In simple terms, it is defined as the strategy and course of action taken to influence a cause and promote it within the entire community. It is also considered to be the publicity of ideas in order to convince the public. In order to promote a propaganda, it is essential that strong media is utilized to transmit it to a large audience in order to accomplish its objective(Gavin, 2007, 46).

Propaganda was one of the weapons used by a lot of enemies and allies during WW II, but the United States was one of the main ones that used it. Propaganda was made up with posters, kids cartoons and even movies. The countries used propaganda to buy the patriotism and spirit of the people of the country. They also used it to make people want to enlist in the army and factories to produce a supple amount of supplies for civillians and military. Several governmental people were responsible for producing propaganda,the biggest being the Office of War Information. The Office of War Information made posters, worked with movie studios to producing pro-war films, wrote for radio brodcasts. They also took tons of pictures that showed the war effort.

Wartime propaganda has always been a beneficial tool for warring nations. Its ability to effectively persuade, influence, and convince citizens even in a time of distress has made it a vital component of many war-engaged countries. The United States, for example, reaped great benefits by using war propaganda in World War II. American propaganda helped dramatically increase the sale of war bonds, rate of civic engagement, and public morale. Although American propaganda during World War II can be considered as extremely biased and racist, it would have been more difficult to for the Americans to defeat Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany if propaganda was not used at all.

The Effect of U.S. Propaganda in World War One World War One was a pivotal point in the evolution of how warfare was implemented to the battle field. The beginning of war started with similar technology and tactics in the 19th century, but by the end of the war technology along with tactics will change extensively. All sides of the war eventually would use telephones, wireless communications, armored tanks, and even airplanes to their advantage (Kaminski, 1989). Away from the battle field though a new device was constructed for the war effort, a literary device; the use of propaganda. Although propaganda was never a tangible use in physical battle it still had a great effect in the outcome of World War One, an effect tantamount to any utility

During World War 2, two main countries utilized propaganda the most: Germany and the United States of America. Germany utilized propaganda more frequently and aggressively compared to the United States, making it the more dominant use of power. The United States is considered submissive because it only used propaganda to get people to support the war cause. The Germans concentrated on three goals for the propagandas: make Hitler into a God-like figure, make Jews into the common enemy for all Germans, and rally the masses. For the US, propaganda primarily served in recruiting more citizens, influencing citizens to financially aid the war, unifying the public, and increasing factory production for the war.

Propaganda really was a fever tilt during WWII and before, Germany was accusing jews for the whole sale downfall of the german economy during the 20s and 30s which accumulate much backing in many extent of Europe. The US propaganda was used as well, in a time were publishing was more "state" familiarize, the US did not truly have a free press. US news paper could not for example print derogative pictures of FDR. He was a philanderer in a wheel chair. His common bias were cram through

Do you remember WWII? You probably weren’t alive back then, but do you know that propaganda was a major part of WWII? The reason it was such a big part of it was because they needed the peoples help, our army was really small compared to other countries, we needed a bigger army. For a lot of countries not just the us everyone needed a bigger army in case things got crazier. The easiest way to do that was through propaganda. Propaganda is information most of the time it’s a lie.