Transcript Propaganda PP

Remember the Maine!
Warm Up: Read and Complete Hook Activity Worksheet on
your desk.
The New York Journal Feb. 18, 1898
Spain to blame? Most likely not!
The Captain of the USS Maine had insisted
the ship was sunk by a coal bin explosion.
Investigations after the war proved that there
had been no mine.
FDR Fireside Chat Radio Address
(December 29, 1941)
Never before since Jamestown and Plymouth Rock has our
American civilization been in danger as now… The Nazi masters
of Germany have made it clear that they intend not only to
dominate all life and thought in their own country, but also to
enslave the whole of Europe, and then use the resources
dominate the rest of the world. Some of our people like to
believe that wars in Europe and in Asia are no concern to us. But
it is a matter of most vital concern…
http:www.youtube.com/watch/v=NCl1W_aN-Y8
Critical Attributes of Concept:
1.) any form of mass produced communication
2.) promotes some religious, economic, or
political idea or cause
3.) designed to influence your opinion
4.) presents facts selectively
Concept Definition
• consists of the planned use of any form of
public mass-produced communication that
presents facts selectively and is designed to
influence a person or group for a specific
purpose, whether religious, economic, or
political.
Name the Concept
• Can you name the concept?
All the examples we have
looked at so far are examples
of what?
Drum Roll Please…
The concept we are learning about
today is called propaganda.
Propaganda
 Propaganda is generally an appeal to
emotion, not intellect.
 It shares techniques with advertising, but
more typically refers to political or
nationalist uses.
Propaganda Cont’d.
 Propaganda can also be used to further
one's cause or to damage an opposing cause.
 In general propaganda has a negative
perception except when used for the
purpose of providing public information.
Propaganda comes in many forms.
Can a cartoon be propaganda?
Propaganda Cartoons
Winnie the Pooh Nazi Propaganda
http:www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwYyFzhVtze
Propaganda Cartoon
ANY BONDS TODAY? 1942 BUGS BUNNY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIlKqXRnnug
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“Destroy this Mad Brute” Political Cartoon.
http://www.israpundit.com/archives/38296
"Destruction of the War Ship Maine was the Work of an Enemy," New York Journal and Advertiser, (Feb. 17, 1898).
http://historicalthinkingmatters.org/spanishamericanwar/0/inquiry/intro/
Lamb, Marie Elizabeth. Awake United States! (New Orleans, LA: 1898).
"Maine's Hull will Decide," New York Times, (Feb. 17, 1898).
http://historicalthinkingmatters.org/spanishamericanwar/0/inquiry/intro/resources/10/
“Remember the Maine” Political Cartoon. New York Times Herald, April 22, 1898.
http://www.cityofart.net/bship/remember_the_maine_cartoon.gif
“The Price of Freedom: Americans at War”. http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/exhibition/flash.html
“The Spanish Brute” Political Cartoon. http://www.israpundit.com/wpcontent/uploads/2011/07/Spanish_Brute.jpg
“Good Friends” http://blogs.nyu.edu/fas/clacs/FrannySullivanPAIHS.jpg
http://americanhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/exhibition/flash.html