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ENGLISH PROPAGANDA DURING
WWI
WORK ON PROPAGANDA POSTERS
I- REMINDER: THE CAUSES OF THE 1ST WORLD WAR
II- BRITAIN IN WAR
III- HOW PROPAGANDA POSTERS PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN WORLD WAR I?
I- REMINDER: the causes of the 1st
World War
I-1- A divided Europe:
→ Economic competition between industrial
countries to win markets
→ Power competition : colonialism.
eg: 2 crisis about Morocco between France and
Germany (1905 and 1911)… war was imminent !
→ A strong Franco-German rivalry : France
wanted to recover Alsace and Lorraine
Triple Alliance (central powers) was
a military alliance among the
German Empire, the AustroHungarian Empire, and the kingdom
of Italy.
Triple Entente (Allied powers) was
the alliance linking the Russian
Empire, the French Third Republic,
and the United Kingdom of Great
Britain
→ OPPOSING FORCES
1915
I-2. Discontentment of minority
groups wanting more rights or
independence
Eg: In the Austro-Hungarian Empire
I-3. Summer 1914: WW1 broke out!
Gavrilo Princip: a Serbian, member of
a Yugoslav nationalist organisation.
He assassinated the
Austrian Archduke Franz
Ferdinand and his wife on
28th June 1914.
28th July, 1914: Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.
Russia mobilised in support of Serbia
2nd August, 1914: Ottoman Empire (Turkey) and Germany
signed a secret treaty of alliance.
3rd August, 1914: Germany declared war on France.
4th August, 1914: Germany invaded neutral Belgium and
Luxembourg (before moving towards France), leading
Britain to declare war on Germany.
10th August, 1914: Austria-Hungary invaded Russia.
II- Britain in war
Head of the British column
near Le Havre
Source : New York Times, 30 Aug 1914
British Highland
regiments marching
through Boulogne
New York Times, 1919.
Present this document: nature, source, context, address, main
ideas.
Describe it:framing, composition ''colours'', light and shade,
characters, setting, action, moment.
Interpret it.
List the whole vocabulary you need to describe the fighting during
WW1