How was propaganda used to enlist people into the military and support the war?

Answer 1

Propaganda in WW1

Propaganda played a major role in WWI because it shaped people's views on the war. When the United States entered the war they created the Committee on Public Information, which was an official propaganda agency. The committee spread propaganda through postcards, posters, newspapers, pamphlets and movies.

Postcards were a great way to get attention because they were commonly used for communication. They reached family and friends very easily and influenced their decisions.

Posters were also used. They encouraged patriotism, mobilized women to grow food to give to soldiers, and encouraged young men to join the war to fight for their country. They also influenced Americans to buy liberty bonds. Posters were very effective because they reached all different kinds of people, including the poor.

Newspapers were also a major way of conveying propaganda. They exaggerated many points of the war, such as the sinking of the Lusitania. Newspapers weren't as effective as posters but just the same, they still propagated against the opposing side.

Propaganda was the best way to shape the opinions of people all over the world. The Committee on Public Information was highly successful in propagating, especially in the sale of Liberty Bonds and the exploitation of President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. Propaganda was an important part of the war for both the Allies and the Central Powers.

Answer 2

Three ways:

1. Make young men go to war (posters talking of 'glory' and 'honor')

2. Advice people on how to survive during the war (grow your own vegetables, don't talk to strangers)

3. Turn people against the enemy (posters saying how bad and evil the enemy is, so people don't realise that the 'enemy' is just them but in Another Country)

Answer 3

Propaganda was used to make people sign up for the war, to make people believe in false beliefs so that people would not get the full idea of what the war was actually going to be like, propaganda helped to add the effect that the war needed you and that you had to fight it, it gave you a way to step out of what you believed in and to make you belive in what they told you to belive in or what they wanted you to know not the full truth.

The government used posters, music, media and anything elae he could to add to the affect that the enemy was bad and that they should not win.

All the government wanted to do was hide the truth and to show the false beliefs... you could not understand it all because you never got the full truth. hope i helped a bit :) Bianca

Answer 4

The governments manipulated the idea of nationalism and used it to their advantage to convince citizens that it wouldn't be as difficult as it was in reality, and got more soldiers recruited by doing so. They also used posters a lot during this time to get more people involved and to support the cause.

Answer 5

Usualy through the use of outright dishonesty. Take for instance the invasion of Iraq, this had to be done to protect The USA against weapons of mass distruction. thise danger was known by school kids to be a fabrication, yet those with vested interests used peoples ignorance to push on.

Answer 6

the Germans used propaganda towards the end of the war to spur the troops on. It was generally patriotic propaganda designed to make Germans feel as if it were there duty to fight. The allies did much the same, encouraging people to join the forces and personified the Germans as vermin.

Ben 14 London