World War 1 Propaganda Analysis

World War 1 proved America to be the nation producing the highest amount of propaganda. Through his use of propaganda President Wilson was able to draw American Support for the war. Despite his being elected as the “peace” president. Many Americans believed he’d keep them out of the war, especially after he stated that, “so far as I can remember, this is a government of the people, and this people is not going to choose war.” Before his election, Wilson promoted American neutrality. He pushed for what he believed his Americans wanted. However, through his employment of propaganda, Woodrow Wilson was able

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.

The thought of losing a war when German propaganda was at it's highest point (Nardo) seemed almost impossible. When news arrived to the people of Germany that the army was retreating many people were astonished. A mutual feeling of betrayal was developing fast across Germany and someone needed to pay. Germany had not been united in many years, before World War One it had been part of the Holy Roman Empire but with the collapse of the empire it had been broken into many separate states. Under the Nazi leadership, Germany had felt restored; like the so called ¨golden¨ days when it was a strong militaristic state, such as Prussia, many felt the strong leadership was what Germany had needed, yet almost as fast as the Empire had grown it had

It must be emphasized that the ultimate object of propaganda in war is the destruction of enemy morale, and its corollary, the strengthening of friendly morale. “It consists of the dissemination of ideas, designed to react in different ways upon their various recipients. The enemy must be made to feel that his cause is hopeless from the start, has no chance of ultimate success, and is based upon delusive ideals.” It is usually impossible to convince the responsible organizations of the hostile nation, such as the government or the army, though it may be advantageous to hinder them in their decisions. But it is comparatively easy to influence the rank and file, civilian as well as military, and to produce an atmosphere of hopelessness fatal to success.

Disparity is the state of being unequal or different in some respect. This brings to inequality being lack of equality and also the distance toward the rich and poor. Poverty is when having very little or no money and very few or no material possessions. As for development is the act of improvement meaning gaining, expanding, or enlarging. Inequality and poverty can cause a country not to develop well, unless you have a good strategy. In this case I will show you a developed country (Spain) and a under developed county (Chad). I will do this by explaining four disparities of the same for both countries. Those disparities are total population, unemployment rate, and condom use.

During the war, many different techniques were used to persuade people to different things to help during the war. Many were about enlisting in the war and about the war efforts. During this time, many people were afraid of the war and how it was impacting the world. Both sides were involved in the spreading of propaganda, which in many cases are racist and mean. Both sides each had things similar and different about the ideas and messages that they portrayed in the propaganda.

One of the strongest weapons of World War 1 was not the nuclear bomb or even the hydrogen bomb, but propaganda. The media reproduced atrocity propaganda, which was very powerful in World War 1. This propaganda used visuals depicting atrocities the enemy had committed in a biased and unfiltered way to ensure public hatred in their respective nations. Television was another reincarnation of propaganda that was used to sway public opinion. After the end of World War 2 media coverage the war proposed the enemy as a threat to national security which inflated domestic fear of imminent destruction.

Analyzing Propaganda Propaganda, a type of writing that makes you want to support people, causes, or things, has always been a form of persuasion to lure people to a cause. Propaganda uses certain techniques to spark feelings or emotions that make you feel a certain way toward a person, group, object, or cause. In World War One, or the Great War, propaganda was used to make people want to join the war, support the war by bonds, or do little deeds to help the people working hard “out there.” Propaganda was a useful tool used by the government and media when the Allies and the Central Powers were using total war on each other when people started having second thoughts about the war. Two propaganda posters from the Great War are the British

Image five on the Propaganda WWII slide document is an example of fear propaganda. The choice of words on the image, “If you talk too much, this man may die” causes the audience to fear their own voice and opinion. The words chosen to represent the picture, demonstrates a threat. Since this poster was made during the time of World War II, it might have a governmental message behind it. It could be that maybe some government secrets have been said and they government doesn’t want anyone to say anything or they will take matters into their own hands- by killing .

Propaganda's powers of mass persuasion is a colorful art form that artists painted to successfully manipulate the ideological mindset of countless individuals and metamorphose them into the image of its purpose. According to The Encyclopedia of Propaganda, propaganda greatly contributed to the bloody loss of lives and was implicitly used as a key weapon to end World War II (Cole 669). Universally, propaganda altered human perspectives and behaviors, ultimately leading to the intolerance and unethical treatment of others during World War II. The infamous children's book, The Poisonous Mushroom, by a Nazi advocate, Julius Streicher, utilizes propaganda to dehumanize the Jews, portraying them as "evil" and "treacherous,” ultimately leading to the growing prejudice of a whole sect of people ("The Poisonous Mushroom”).

World War I also known as First World War or Great War, a worldwide issue that was between1914–18 embroils the most part of the countries of Europe alongside Russia, the United States, the Center East, and different districts. The war counted the Central Powers—mainly Germany, Austria- Hungary, an Turkey—against the Allies: France, UK, Russia, Italy, Japan, and the United States from 1917. It ended with the defeat of the Central Powers. Propaganda is meant to get people to think, act, or feel a particular way. At World War 1 they used Propaganda to recruit people for the army through a draft or voluntary enlistment. Propaganda was important at that time since it persuade people and informs them about the issue.

Propaganda is information, ideas, or rumors made and compelled to change the way to are thinking about a certain subject, usually a political subject. Propaganda usually does not tell the truth about other countries strategy in war and what they are doing right and what they are doing wrong. Propaganda was used mainly during WWII and WWI to promote nationalism in countries. This idea was extremely effective, and very well could have started WWII.

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: a tool used to shape citizen thinking for the use of governmental goals in occasions worldwide. Many countries use propaganda for the support of its citizens in certain purposes. During Word War II, the United States needed the support of the American citizens for the purchasing of war bonds, acquiring the volunteer work of women, and also the conservation of the country’s natural resources. Therefore, the main purpose of propaganda is to persuade citizens of that country to support the decisions of the government.