Why is propaganda so successful?

Answer 1

Government Propaganda during the First World War was extremely effective in terms of the country's nationalism and patriotism through the four years. It had promoted the attitudes to the War effort and motivated the generations to support and put faith into the soldiers fighting away in France. The intentions of Britain's wartime propaganda was to achieve certain aims that were considered to help and push the country's beliefs into the War itself. The government wanted to influence people and portray the War to what they believed the public should know about. It was a matter of balancing political knowledge with public propaganda, proving to be a difficult decision to make which would be the most appropriate and beneficial at the time of the War. The government had concerns of recruitment, which were one of its main attainments, and without effective use of propganda this target would not be reached. It proposed to use different variations of propaganda that would maintain the public morale and encourage the public to support the War effort and understand the importance of the War too. It was the government who began initiating wartime propaganda by publishing and producing thousands of media; newspapers, leaflets and pamphlets across the country to start addressing the issue. Soon, after months of preparations and publications printed through various commercial companies and agencies the nation's propaganda was beginning to have a profound impact on the people and widespread through socities to communities. The attitudes of many people were changing and beginning to get a vague impression of the War being fought over in France. Women were particularly inspired to work heavily throughout the War, as part of their women's suffrage campaign too, to support and help the War effort. In some cases the propaganda campaign could change peoples attitudes and influence them all the time, people who completely believed the wartime posters excetra were true and right, transforming their views and prospective on the War. Some other forms of propaganda managed to give awful impressions of the German and portray them as committing atrocities in Belgium, building up the anti-German propaganda to resent them whilst favouring the British government and supporting the War effort even more, strenghtening the commitment and faith. The British government also thought propaganda could maintain public support by encouraging the War effort too; another method was to give the public a government-approved version of the War. In effect the government's aims were to make the propaganda as purposeful and unquestionable as possible.

• To keep morale up at the Home Front and encourage people to give their time and money to the war effort
• To portray the enemy as an evil that needs to be fought
• To recruit more soldiers
• To stop information from being published which might help the enemy
• To psychologically dishearten the enemy troops
• To give civilians a government-approved version of the War

These important factors allowed the significant work of the government propaganda to effectively combat the War effort and help look after the public faith and moral during the four years of the First World War. Notice how some of these aims were to dishearten or demoralize the enemy. Here the government believed that if their propaganda was strong enough and influential to other nations, the government were capable of producing publications that would reflect the German troops or civilians as aggressive people and phychologically opress them with news of defeats.

Of course if the public had known since the beginning the government were using propaganda against them, potential consequences could have been brought upon the War effort and damage the public morale and support whilst endangering the people's faith and hopes of soldiers fighting over in France. The state of the kingdom could have been disastrous and had an enormous impact on the public prosperity. Although this exactly why the government was in complete control and managed the propaganda to an extent where people's attitudes were being changed quite considerably. This opens the questions to should have the government been allowed to do this or was it for the good of the country to protect and safe guard the public's knowlegde and conscience of the War.

Answer 2

Im guessing your on about the Nazis? :) Well it got them recognised and it bumped up their publicity. Seen as the Weimar government werent doing very well in terms of publicity Hitler did everything he could to become chancellor. Basically it made them noticable and that is one of the key factors on why hitler became chancellor in 1933. I HOPE THIS HELPS! :)

Answer 3

because propaganda users made it to persuade people.

Answer 4

because he never wanted anyone that was different than him in the world.

Answer 5

i tthink it was effective because more people were into it