WORLD WAR IPropaganda

Objectives

Content Objective: Students will analyze WWI Propaganda posters using Historical thinking

skills

Language Objective: Students will created their own WWI propaganda posters.

Propaganda (definition)

• Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.

Introduction

Popular support for World War I was garnered by imagery used in newspapers and posters. This phenomena is known as propaganda. Propaganda posters played a major role in World War I.

Today, you will encounter some examples of propaganda. We will analyze these examples and then you will be given the opportunity to create your very own piece of propaganda.

Examples of Propaganda

THE OPPOSING FORCES

THE CENTRAL POWERS

• The Austro-Hungarian Empire

• Germany

• The Ottoman Empire

• Bulgaria

THE ALLIED POWERS

• France• Russia• United Kingdom• United States• Australia• Belgium• Canada• Italy

Class Activity

• We will be looking at propaganda posters from different countries. We will use our historical thinking skills to analyze the posters to determine who made the posters and what were each posters purpose.

EXAMPLES OFBRITISH PROPAGANDA

EXAMPLES OFAMERICAN PROPAGANDA

EXAMPLES OFGERMAN PROPAGANDA

EXAMPLES OFFRENCH PROPAGANDA

EXAMPLE OFBELGIAN PROPAGANDA

EXAMPLES OFAUSTRALIAN PROPAGANDA

EXAMPLES OFCANADIAN PROPAGANDA

EXAMPLES OFITALIAN PROPAGANDA

EXAMPLES OFRUSSIAN PROPAGANDA

GOALS OF PROPAGANDA POSTERS

• Recruitment of soldiers: Posters aimed at recruitment attempted to get men to join the army and fight for their country.

• Conservation of goods: These posters encouraged people at home to conserve goods so that they could be used by soldiers in the war.

• Purchasing of war bonds: These posters advocated the purchase of war bonds, which would help the government fund the war.

• Support for the war at home: These posters encouraged people not in the army to become involved in the war at home by joining organizations or working in industries related to the war effort.

TOOLS (METHODS) USED IN PROPAGANDA POSTERS

• Catchy phrases: Posters often used catchy phrases or slogans in order to stick in the memory of the people who saw them.

• Appeals to patriotism: Displaying symbols of the country was a strategy used in propaganda posters, and could include anything from flags to symbols such as eagles.

• Demonization of the enemy: Another strategy involved a direct attack on the enemy. In these posters the enemy is portrayed as a demonic figure that is often doing things that no moral human being would do.

• Half-Truths/Half-Lies: These posters used inaccurate information in an attempt to persuade viewers.

TOOLS(METHODS) cont.• Caricatures: These posters portray the enemy in a ridiculous

fashion and make them appear as if they are not human.

• Appeals to emotion: These posters attempt to create an emotional response in the viewer, who will then be compelled to act.

• Name Calling: These posters resort to insults or name calling directed at the enemy.

Creating Your Own Poster

Procedure: Your next task will be to create your own propaganda poster..

The poster must include:Color.A catchy phrase.An explanation for what your poster is trying to convey. This can be written on the back of the poster.