Types Of Propaganda In 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.

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 is information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a political cause or point of view(Webster). It has always been used to encourage the support of a cause especially during times of war. During World War II, the American government was hesitant to use propaganda to encourage American support due to past experiences of propaganda during World War I. According to Lincoln Riddle’s article on War History Online, businesses and corporations had to persuade the government to use propaganda in America. The government consented to the deed so long as the ads being displayed by business and corporation were only giving information on the war instead of withholding information from the public (Riddle). Regardless, some posters and ads were overexaggerated for a war effort making them propaganda. The themes could be divided into six main themes: “The Nature of the Enemy, The Nature of the Allies, The Need to Work, The Need to Fight, The Need to Sacrifice, and The Americans-What we are fighting for” (Campbell). These forms used as propaganda ranged from posters, radio, and television.

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.

As seen on World War propaganda posters, the war effort did not solely take place on the front. Women were encouraged to work in manufacturing, and all citizens were encouraged to save food and buy war bonds. Their tainted view of other countries resulted solely from propaganda, and if Allied citizens knew that citizens of the Central or Axis powers were humans exactly like themselves, they would not bother supporting the war effort. This would have stopped the Allied forces from countering the Central Powers in WWI, and the Axis Powers in WW2. Similar to the military, citizens must not be introduced to antiwar material in the midst of wartime in order to ensure their support. Citizens who are given too much information, as with with the Vietnam War. During the “Unpopular War,” American citizens were able to tune into the war from their television sets, and soon protested US involvement, and demanded the war end. Since then, the government has taken special care to make sure that their mistake is not repeated. Making sure that the people of a country are not properly informed is a vital task of the

Rhetoric is a powerful and artistic method of communicating effectively in order to persuade others towards the author’s purpose, a tactic often found in war settings. In speeches and posters, rhetoric is used as an attempt to control the emotions and actions of a country, whether by filling them with fear or inspiring them to fight. However, posters are visuals that can be used to more easily pervade the minds of the audience in order to pursue the creator’s agenda. A particular poster from the United States during World War II with such capability encompassed the idea: “This Is The Enemy”. Prior to the publishing of this poster in 1942, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The following day, the United States declared war on Japan and officially became involved in the Second World War. There was now a need in America to rally support for the war to defeat Japan. To build national pride and rally Americans against the enemy race, the nation turned to the persuasive powers of propaganda. America’s “This Is The Enemy” poster was a strong example of this propaganda because it represented Japanese soldiers as the enemy through techniques such as visual dysphemism, color choice, and symbols in order to evoke emotion and inspire Americans to fight.

Propaganda has always held sway over hearts and minds. Although the United States’ first large-scale wartime experience with propaganda in its semi-modern form of ‘yellow journalism’ took place during the Spanish-American War , primitive forms of it have existed since the days of “the tattoo-covered Caddo warrior, whose body attests to every victory, accomplishment, or god worshiped” and “Hannibal’s titanic war elephants advancing across the Italian plain.” Even “the ‘rebel yells’ of Confederate soldiers proclaiming that a charge was about to ensue” can be considered a sort of propaganda because in its most simple definition, propaganda is “the manipulation of opinion.” However, the modern propaganda which Americans are most familiar with is well summed up by the Merriam-Webster definition: “ideas or statements that are often false or exaggerated and that are spread in order to help a cause, a political leader, a government, etc.” The beginning of the 20th century and the onset of World War I marked the beginning of the true modern propaganda era, and throughout the 20th century, propaganda has grown in scope and influence, as well as been altered in how it is disseminated among and marketed to the people.

Propaganda is used to try and portray a misleading message from a political point of view. Propaganda exploded during World War II due to the events that happened during the War including the genocide of European Jews. In Germany Nazis were killing European Jews by placing them in concentration camps where they were tortured and starved to death. But before the European Jews were placed in concentration camps, the Nazis demonized the Jews by forcing them to wear the Star of David on their clothing with the words Jude written across it. These Nazis were ruled by Adolf Hitler who made his way to power by manipulating the people of Germany. During this time America was isolating themselves and ignoring the problems that were taking place in Europe

The techniques used in World War 2 propaganda was very effective. It got people in up roar about the war most wanted to help but no body really know how to till our very president Franklin D. Roosevelt he did what every president does he adressed the people of this great country with one of his speeches. This speech was called the Infamy Speech. This speech talked about how we were attack by Japan the evil Nazi are taking over , and the Russians are going to take over as well. He told us that we need to banned together as, one. He laid out a plan to get people to work in factories to help the war effort. the Propaganda during the war was a very power weapon during the war; it was used to dehumanize and create hatred towards our enemy, either

Source 3 is by far the best propaganda poster out of the 5 sources. This poster is directed toward women during World War II to find an occupation that will ultimately help their loved one come back from war. It uses appeals to the emotional response of the audience and uses the belief that by getting a war job, your loved one will come back from war quickly and safely. It is also based off of the exaggeration the your help, and only your help, will greatly affect the war effort, when in reality that isn’t necessarily true. A woman getting a job in making cartridges for guns will not increase or decrease the chance of a loved one dying. This poster is sufficient enough to persuade women because the purpose is easy

According to Nicholas Cull, author of Roof of a House Divided: How U.S. Propaganda Evolved into Public Diplomacy, in 1941 President Roosevelt felt that propaganda was very important to accomplish the needs of the U.S. during the war, so for the first time in American history, we have the creation of the Office of the Coordinator of Information, which will be the leading force behind the war propaganda. Within a couple of days of the Pearl Harbor attack, the Office of the Coordinator of Information and the Foreign Information Service prioritized their propaganda efforts against the Japanese, which resulted in the discrimination against the Japanese to reach a degree that was unheard of until then. The American propaganda’s main intent, besides for recruiting purposes, was to detract the human element from the enemy, in which this case was the Japanese. According to the secondary source “Japan against Japan: U.S. Propaganda and Yasuo Kuniyoshi's Identity Crisis”, the Roosevelt administration used a various media of propaganda such as posters, radio broadcasts and motion pictures to educate the public and instill the negative stereotyping of the Japanese.

The Asia-Pacific War was like many other wars; it had an enormous impact on the world, but in Japan and the United States it affected the way of life. Japanese American soldiers had to overcome and withstand racism and hostility during this time from the Americans. People were wary of Japanese Americans fighting for the United States, because it was the Japanese of whom the Americans were fighting against. After the war, propaganda films were made to convince people of a specific political point of influence throughout the war. Two propaganda films that were made about the Asia-Pacific War were Go for Broke and Know Your Enemy.

In this thought Japan assumed America would want to go to war with Japan over the conquest of the West Indies. The attack on Pearl Harbor was proposed to slow down America’s advanced naval bases. The attack began when planes of Japanese fighters attacked the American naval base near Honolulu Hawaii (History). After, more than 2,000 man dead and major battleships destroyed President Roosevelt declared war on Japan which brought America into World War II. After, the declaration of war and bombing to keep the American people unfearful, anti-Japanese propaganda was displayed through America. Propaganda was used to alter Americans social perceptions with crude drawing of stereotypical Japanese qualities. To also change American perception on Japanese people was fear based showing Japanese soldiers as menace and threating. With some pictures showing Japanese soldiers with knifes threating women. Making the American people scared and anger to rally the nation together (University of Missouri). Hannah Miles writes an articles called The Influence of Racism and says besides from the fear based campaigns, the visual elements were crucial in this posters depicting stereotypes like slanted eyes, facial resembles of monkeys, and a unhuman almost monster like quality, when depicting Japanese people. In this depiction it detached the human relation between the