Propaganda Assignment

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.

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

Totalitarian leaders used propaganda to persuade followers to believe that their country would be restored again. Propaganda is when information deliberately spread to help or harm a person, group, or institution. This allows people to be pursued by the leaders and gives the leaders the advantages. In document C, poster created by the Nazi government in 1938, encourages Germans to vote for the annexation of Austria. In the poster you can see that their is hands in air showing that Germany is always united. In this poster, you can see that at the top there are some letters, these letter in English means United Germany. At the bottom the word “Ja!” means YES!. This means that the people are proud of their country. In document B, a speech by

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.

In Oceania, rumors, myths, ideas and false information controls the minds of the citizens. The Party uses propaganda as a powerful weapon against the citizens. There are many types of propaganda used. Propaganda is brainwash. The citizens of Oceania are brainwashed to think that the Party is really there to help them, to make them happy. “WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.” and “Big Brother is Watching You” are examples of doublethink. These uses of propaganda prevent rebellion of the citizens of Oceania because they believe that this society is the ideal society. They believe they are protected, and that they could not be happier. Propaganda is the Party’s

During World War II, governments would create propaganda in hopes of inspiring or convincing citizens in their country to make a contribution to the war effort. Most of the propaganda was related to the need of the factory workers in the factories and the factories needed as many people as possible to help make materials necessary for the war. Therefore, the techniques used to persuade their citizens to join the war movement was through different fonts, pop of colors, and images to catch the reader's eyes.

“The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape site from it” wrote Joseph Goebbel; a statement that Hitler strongly agreed with (Trueman). When Nazi Germany came to power in 1933, Goebbel was a master propagandist of the “Nazi regime and dictator of its cultural life for 12 years”. With Goebbles as a propaganda leader, Germany was able to develop an organized propaganda designed to to manipulate “ a cynic, devoid of inner devotions” and “ orchestrate a pseudo religious cult” (“Joseph Goebbels”). Subliminal propaganda proved to be a more valuable weapon than artillery and man power combined. Propaganda played a key part in every nation 's war effort; though, none were as efficacious as Nazi Germany. Germany knew the power that could be harnessed from propaganda and carefully cultivated, and molded their message to become one of the most dangerous countries in the world.

The Cold War was one of the wars that made everyone hold their breaths and ponder would would happen next and when. The Cold War was a time period between 1947 to1991 in which the Western powers (US) and the USSR competed with each other in a tense rivalry and strive to outperform one another. It was also one of the key moments in history which spiked a motive and drive to develop and produce new strategies, weapons, and technologies. There was no actual fighting which took place (hence the name Cold War), but the two were always trying to best each other. The two superpowers often contested with each other militaristically, socially, politically, and economically. With this in mind: what weapons were used to fight the Cold War? Generally, Cold War weapons included the use of propaganda, nuclear weapons, and new technological development.

The techniques used to persuade the citizens contain very simple techniques of propaganda; plain folks and bandwagon are the two main ones. These types of propaganda are very useful and very easily caught on by the masses. What I mean by that is that everyone can either relate to the propaganda being used or have some sort of understanding of it. This by far is probably the most easiest and inexpensive propaganda to use as well as being simple with not much time to spend on producing in whatever way or form you decide to place it or put out.

After being thrust into the Second World War after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a majority of Americans came together, driven by shock and nationalism. “Avenge Pearl Harbor!” became a rallying cry for Americans across the nation. The effort of mobilization encompassed the entire nation; from big business to private companies to “victory gardens,” the nation was ready for a two-front war, in terms of machinery and morale. Wartime manufacturing mass-produced thousands of aircraft, armored vehicles, and trucks, along with new inventions such as the radar and early computers. Propaganda, mostly in the form of posters and political cartoons, sprouted everywhere to incite nationalism and a sense of duty to Americans. However, for German, Italian, and Japanese Americans, American World War II propaganda was typically used against them.

Flashes of World War II propaganda cartoons from Germany, Japan and the United States demonstrate how they were by picturing the other species as rats and snakes. Based on these cartoons and images, which have some same points such as visual metaphor and hostile cliches to characterize and dehumanize their enemies, Dr. Keen believes that they are drawn from the artists being at the same schools.

In Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the purpose of my propaganda poster is to demonstrate that the animals need to rebuild a windmill in order to have a better environment and an overall better farm. In my poster, I drew Napoleon, who is the leader of the farm. By drawing Napoleon I used testimonial because it’s the use of a well-known person or a celebrity, by doing this the animals are gonna stare at the poster twice because it’s Napoleon and he’s the leader of the farm. I also wrote on my poster that the animals should rebuild the windmill because every farm has one & that it’s gonna help the farm, by writing that I used bandwagon.

The concept acquired a new meaning after the French Revolution. The Italian anarchists of the nineteenth century are usually credited as being the progenitors of modern-day terrorism. Best known for their dictum “propaganda by deed,” they argued that violence serves didactic purposes. Errico Malatesta, Carlo Cafiero, and Emilio Covelli “conceived and developed the idea of Propaganda by Deed through a series of letters to each other between July and October 1876 (Garrison, 2004: 265; see also Alvanou, 2008).” The Italian anarchists’ “propaganda by deed” was embraced by the Russian organization Narodnaya Volya (the People’s Will), the entity usually articulated as the first instance of a modern terrorist organization. Found in 1878, Narodnaya

Media plays a huge role in brainwashing and influencing Party member’s instincts toward complete Party allegiance. Specifically, the Propaganda spread throughout Oceania which, limits society’s innate aptitude. The media informs the society about small, mindless events daily, full of Party slogans and gimmicks. They are constantly filling up member’s heads with Party doctrine so that they are overwhelmed with information and have no room to think of anything else save for the Party. There is always some sort of white noise blaring in the background. For example, when there is an abrupt silence that allows the mind to roam through other thoughts, it is immediately followed by an earsplitting siren or deafening music that disrupts the roving

For my Humanities final I have decided to do a piece of Propaganda art. Whether it is art, will have to remain to be seen… For starters, my chosen image is designed to look like a Wanted poster. The person on it looks like your everyday, stereotypical, young housewife from the 1940s.