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What information does this chart give us?
How was propaganda used to
persuade American attitudes in
WWI?
WWI Propaganda
• Information that is spread deliberately to
influence people’s thoughts or actions
• Civilians were asked to support the war
effort in many ways.
FOUR TECHNIQUES OF
PROPAGANA
1. Propaganda often present half-truths, or only
facts that support a particular cause.
Propaganda is one-sided.
2. Propaganda uses name-calling.
3. Propaganda uses emotion to make a person
identify a cause with a famous person or a
noble idea, such a religion, motherhood, etc.
4. Propaganda shows the other side in the worst
possible way – as blood-thirsty murders, baby
killers, etc.
OVER THERE
Johnnie, get your gun,
Get your gun, get your gun,
Take it on the run,
On the run, on the run.
Hear them calling, you and me,
Every son of liberty.
Hurry right away,
No delay, go today,
Make your daddy glad
To have had such a lad.
Tell your sweetheart not to pine,
To be proud her boy's in line.
Johnnie, get your gun,
Get your gun, get your gun,
Take it on the run,
On the run, on the run.
Hear them calling, you and me,
Every son of liberty.
Hurry right away,
No delay, go today,
Make your daddy glad
To have had such a lad.
Tell your sweetheart not to pine,
To be proud her boy's in line.
Chorus:
Over there, over there,
Send the word, send the word over there –
That the Yanks are coming,
The Yanks are coming,
The drums rum tumming everywhere.
So prepare, say a prayer,
Send the word, send the word to beware.
We'll be over, we're coming over, And we
won't come back till it's over, Over There!
Chorus:
Over there, over there,
Send the word, send the word over there –
That the Yanks are coming,
The Yanks are coming,
The drums rum tumming everywhere.
So prepare, say a prayer,
Send the word, send the word to beware.
We'll be over, we're coming over, And we
won't come back till it's over, Over There!
• Posters
like this
urged
Americans
to join the
war and
protect
their
country.
• This poster
shown here was
used by the U.S.
government to
promote support
for WWI. The
term “Hun” was a
negative name
used for the
Germans.
• “Destroy this Mad
Brute” is the caption of
this World War I
propaganda poster for
enlistment in the U.S.
Army. A dribbling, apelike German using a
club bearing the word
“kultur” (culture) and
wearing a pickelhaube
helmet with the word
“militarism” is walking
onto the shore of
America while holding a
half-naked woman in
his grasp (possibly
meant to depict Liberty).
This is a US version of
an earlier British poster
through the same
image.
• This poster
urged
families to
eat less in
order to save
food for
American
soldiers.