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Name ___________________________
Use your textbook to find a definition of “propaganda” and put it in your own words in the pace below:
There are generally 5 main objectives of wartime propaganda:
 Recruitment of Soldiers
 Financing the War (war bonds/taxes)
 Nationalism
 Conservation of Resources
 Participation in home-front organizations to support the war effort
Home-Front
Conservation
Nationalism
Financing
Recruitment
POSTER #
Directions: For each propaganda poster shown in your packet, choose the most appropriate objective by checking in the
box below:
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1. What method of recruiting soldiers do you feel is effective? (What
kind of poster would motivate you to join the army?
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2. Why do you think governments needed to finance the war? What
did they need to pay for?
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3. What types of products needed to be conserved for the war effort?
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4. What type of imagery do you think made posters effective? (dark,
positive, negative, nationalistic, etc) Explain why.
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Project: On the back of this paper, design your own propaganda poster
(a NEW design, don’t copy one of the ones you saw) and label the
objective of your poster. Be sure to use color and appropriate images.
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Name ____Key________
Use your textbook to find a definition of “propaganda” and put it in your own words in the pace below:
Form of communication that aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position
by presenting only one side.
There are generally 5 main objectives of wartime propaganda:
 Recruitment of Soldiers
 Financing the War (war bonds/taxes)
 Nationalism
 Conservation of Resources
 Participation in home-front organizations to support the war effort
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2. Why do you think governments needed to finance the war? What
did they need to pay for?
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4. What type of imagery do you think made posters effective? (dark,
positive, negative, nationalistic, etc) Explain why.
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Open to most student opinions.
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3. What types of products needed to be conserved for the war effort?
Many possible answers but especially food that soldiers would need
to eat, coal, metals, and materials needed to produce weapons of war.
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Open to student opinion but should include the need to pay for
feeding, clothing, and supporting soldiers and the war. This includes
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1. What method of recruiting soldiers do you feel is effective? (What
kind of poster would motivate you to join the army?
Open to student opinion.
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Home-Front
Conservation
Nationalism
Financing
Recruitment
POSTER #
Directions: For each propaganda poster shown in your packet, choose the most appropriate objective by checking in the
box below:
X
© Students of History
www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Students-Of-History
Project: On the back of this paper, design your own propaganda poster
(a NEW design, don’t copy one of the ones you saw) and label the
objective of your poster. Be sure to use color and appropriate images.