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Any Bonds Today?
American History
10th grade
By: Jacquelyn Ellis
ED 639
Topic
• Identifying propaganda used
during World War II to rally
Americans
Objectives
• To help students properly
identify different types of
propaganda
• To help students properly
identify different opportunities
for involvement in civic
activities
Materials
• “Cartoons Go To War” – video
• Poster board, Markers, Colored
Pencils, Rulers
• Textbooks
• Internet access
Activities
• Cartoons go to War video
• Powerpoint presentation
• Creating a propaganda poster
for the war
• Poster presentations
• “Propaganda: Does it help?”
essay
Websites
• http://www.trumanlibrary.org/mu
seum/posters/
• Powers of Persuasion
• Propaganda Media
Overview
• Background to war
• Why war came
• America gets involved
Overview
• Propaganda for the war (America)
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Women in war
Don’t waste!
War Bonds
America Wants You!
Loose lips, sink ships!
Propaganda against the enemy
• Propaganda for the war (Germany &
Japan)
Background to War
• Discontent after World War I
• Fascism and the rise of
Mussolini in Italy
• The Weimar Republic
• Politically Weak
• Economic Disaster
• The Rise of Hitler and the Third
Reich
Why War Came
• Other countries distracted by own
economic & political hardships
• Dictators challenge to world peace
• German aggression
• Failure of appeasement
• German invasion of Poland in 1939
America Gets Involved
• At first America was neutral
• Lend-Lease Act allows FDR to
send materials to aid countries
as he sees fit
• Atlantic Charter
• Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
Rally for America!
• The American government
began to use propaganda to
encourage support for the war
effort both in Europe and in
Japan.
Propaganda:
• The spreading of ideas or
information to further support
or damage a cause
Women In War
• With a large number of
America’s men at war overseas
women had to pull back their
hair and hold down the home
front. Rosie the Riveter became
the official female figure for the
war effort.
Women in War
It’s a Woman’s War Too!
Don’t Waste our
Materials!
• During the war Americans had
to ration everything! From scrap
metal, to gasoline, to oil, to
food; everything had to be
rationed!
Don’t Waste!
Conserve materials
War Bonds
• It was very common during the
war for homes to be visited by
local officials selling war bonds.
These bonds were similar to
saving bonds and were used by
the government to help fund
war efforts.
Buy War Bonds!
Buy War Bonds!
America Wants You!
• The government needed men to
fight for the war effort so they
began to draft and recruit all
eligible men. Those who
avoided this draft were known
as “draft dodgers.”
Join the Cause!
America Wants You!
Loose Lips, Sink Ships!
• Traitors and spies were
everywhere! No one could be
trusted; therefore the
government used propaganda to
remind Americans that “loose”
talk could cost lives.
Our Carelessness
Loose Lips
Propaganda against the
Enemy
• During World War II social
stereotypes were used to overexaggerate the “evil” of the
enemy. Depictions of the enemy
were created to make them
appear evil and heartless and to
rally American support for the
war.
Japanese Depictions
Depiction of Hitler
Everybody else is doing
it…
• America wasn’t the only country
employing propaganda to push
the war effort. Other countries
all over the world were using
propaganda techniques to rally
the people for the cause, no
matter which side they were
fighting for.
German Propaganda
German Propaganda
Japanese Propaganda