Though Shall Not Kill Led to No War for the Conscientious Objectors

For example this propaganda poster is encouraging Australian men to enlist in the war. The use of second person in the poster pressures men to go help out by using word “you” and talking directly to the viewer. Also having woman and a child in the poster is compelling the man because the woman and child rely on the father/husband for protection as well as the sense of guilt felt if the viewer is not going out to help the others in war. This source is reliable because it is from the Australian War Memorial. Although the source is propaganda, it provides a clear understanding of why people wanted to join the war at the time.

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson was a British Georgian poet and a lot of his work gets associated with World War 1. The poet’s work originally started out as magical story-telling; then abandoned that style for a more honest, realistic style to life. Not life for the upper class, but for the low level workingman. The switch to talking about the life of the working class made his work more real; his war poems were told through the view of the common soldier. His switch in his poetry theme was not pleasing to everyone though. A conscript is compulsory enlistment for state services, specifically armed forces. “The Conscript” is about how working class men, the conscripts, are being examined by doctors to see if they are in the proper conditions to go to war or be sent home. The doctors do not care if the men die instantly when they go to war. In “The Conscript,” Wilfrid Wilson Gibson develops the theme of the predestined death for the common man. The poet does this by

World War one was a desperate time, lives were lost and some countries gained powers and others broke, Australia is one of the countries that gained power through WW1, a nation with the population of four million people leading there to be a potential of 820,000 men of ' Fighting age'. The fighting age was between 19 to 38, but many who were younger or older snuck in as well, teenagers from the age of 12 and elderly from 39 to 67 years old. They were able to fight with the with the signature of their parent or lying about there age. The images seen above about the war have made many people wonder ' Why did men enlist in WW1?'. The response for this depends on the person, about their desires and motivation. In the time of WW1 many joined for the adventure, to see the world as many lived a life of the outback, and the want to have more excitement as their lives were very...well boring. In WW1

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For some reason , who people who rejected war were forbidden from various benefits. Teenagers were constantly found in a dilemma not only with themselves, but with their own families and society and it's pressure as well. The more time the war took the more they questioned it, they just couldn't believe why such an immoral war brought such tragedy and controversy to their homeland. For you to become a CO you must had first write an essay explaining or justifying your status condition.

The soldiers are brainwashed with techniques they are told so they would be more likely survive. Everything the army demands, a soldier has to listen and perform. War changes the world to not think for themselves, if it secures protection. Propaganda tried to impact people emotionally by undertaking certain duties. Propaganda is information that is used to promote events or certain views/opinions. The propaganda poster, “Tell the Marines!” (Document E) This propaganda poster makes the people think that the enemies are terrible people, however, all people are the same, but propaganda is trying to make people believe otherwise. The propaganda was used in many events during history (Lenin and Hitler) to gain control over those in the country. They used banners, posters slogans, and censorship to influence the people to believe in their points. The government used propaganda to try to brainwash the people. It makes the people stop thinking for themselves and believe the government instead. like a totalitarian state. It would try to influence the people to follow certain rules instead of their own

Things that are portrayed in a British propaganda poster are hatred of germany, sense of adventure. patriotism, quick victory, and society and women will view you as cowardly if you don't join. At first this was very successful, with an average of 33,000 men joining daily. Three weeks later, over 500,000 men had volunteered their service. Many people enlisted thought the war would be over by Christmas that year, which could account for the large numbers volunteering.

Physical conditions for the soldiers also varied somewhat between the different armies on the Western Front, although the particular and horrific nature of the war was shared by all of them. For most French, German and British soldiers going to war was the unwelcome and inevitable consequence of conscription. For most combatants on all sides, however, particularly early in the war, service was voluntary, and men who were not forced to enrolled in the Army. Some of the reasons for this can be found in the fact that the arrival of the war brought an unforgettable sense of community to people: it prompted patriotism and brought societies closer together, weakening the strong class differences of the time.

The second support the United State needed for the war was more army force.The German army size is far bigger in comparison to the American army. The Selective Service Act was passed by Congress to increase the army force number. The act required to register for men that are between the ages of twenty-one to thirty to participate in the war. The army needed more men, therefore, the United State extends the age group from eighteen to forty-five. The committee started spreading encouraging bravery posters, fils, poems and other methods to increase the numbers of soldiers. Even though many of Americans were supportive of the war there were also some Americans that opposed the act and would not register for the military. These individuals faced harsh punishments such as prison time and death sentences. The committee created posters that encouraged the men to register voluntarily.

Wartime relations can cause a country to get down as we saw in the United States during Vietnam to a point where a large portion of the public doesn’t support the war. One of the ways countries, like the United States, curb this is by creating propaganda. In World War II, the United States used the propaganda to get the public behind the war effort and to unite the country. This propaganda included posters to advertise,

Such propaganda included posters asking people to “Wake up America! Civilisation calls every man, woman and child!” A British poster that emphasises the involvement of the total population in the war effort shows different kinds of people engaging in war responsibilities – men at battle, women in the workforce making uniforms, men making weapons – and it asks “Are YOU in this?” This kind of all-embracing propaganda had the aim to brainwash whole nations. The combination of the public’s thirst for information about the war and various governments’ urgent need to mobilise entire civilian populations for the war effort led to a moulding of the public’s thinking through the printed word. In Germany, for example, the military had the right to censor the press and any information that could distress the people was suppressed, while unfavourable news about a situation on the front was passed over silence, delayed or toned down. This was the same in Britain and France. The First World War was total because propaganda and censored news were used as weapons that could reach whole populations and intervene into everyday lives. Even though not all people were physically involved in battle, even children could look at a newspaper or propaganda poster and feel the impact of war through words that evoke fear, sadness, anger or give the urge to join the army.

During World War II, propaganda was used for a number of reasons, it not only showed how anyond could be of use to the war efforts, but it also showed that every person could contribute as well. These posters empowered everyone to stand behind their nation's Army, and to continue contributing to the war efforts. The posters showed that everyone is needed, that anyone could make a difference, and some even emphasized certain values to those who are already helping with the war effort.

In the First World War people wanted the young men to go to war, but

For example, when one of the men declined to take part in what would be later known as the Jozefow Massacre, his captain was not pleased. According to Browning, “Captain Hoffmann, who had arrived in Jozefow directly from Zakrzow with the Third Platoon of Third Company and had not been apart of the officers’ meetings in Bilgoraj the day before, was furious that one of his men had been the first to break ranks. Hoffman began to berate Schimke… (Browning 57).” Browning shows through the account of the men’s initiation into mass murder that the stigma of not participating in massacres meant that the individual would be a coward, less of a man, or someone who does not support his country made the choice of conformity a tough one. Many of the men stayed silent when the option was presented. However, Browning shows that the one man who chose to decline his participation because he “‘would in in no case participate in such an action, in which defenseless women and children are shot (Browning 56)’” prompted about a dozen or so men to follow his lead and also decline to take part in the massacre. Only when one man acted alone and publicly chose to be a nonconformist, another dozen men were prompted to turn their back against the group and join him. At the end of World War II, it has been found that these men would make up “less than twenty percent (Browning 168)” of the Reserve

In the first month of the fight of war more than 500,000 volunteered, and one million by the end of 1914 in rallies for recruitment to support fronts .The British considered it as a chance to prove themselves.“In the event the war went for more than four years claiming our million lives with around 2.5 million British casualties” (Poplawski.2008:537)