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WWI PROPAGANDA :
LITERATURE
ART
MUSIC
PROPAGANDA
• Something designed to influence our opinions, emotions,
attitudes and behavior to persuade us to believe in something
or to do something
• can be a poster, an ad, a song, a movie, etc.
These are the 10 main techniques used in
effective Propaganda:
1.
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3.
4.
5.
Appeal to Authority
Bandwagon
Glittering Generality
Simplification
Name Calling
6. Slogans
7. Virtue Words
8. Repetition
9.Stereotyping
10. Lying & Distortion
WAR-TIME PROPAGANDA
PropagandaStories of the horrible acts and atrocities the
Germans were committing on the innocent
civilian population began to anger the U.S.
Yellow JournalismInflammatory press releases as well as news
articles and stories published by unethical
newspapers angered people around the
world.
GROWING MILITARISM
Propaganda allowed for
a glorification of war
and it called for military
expansion and
mobilization and
preparation for war
GOALS OF PROPAGANDA POSTERS
 Recruitment of soldiers: Posters aimed at recruitment
attempted to get men to join the army and fight for their
country.
 Conservation of goods : These posters encouraged people at
home to conserve goods so that they could be used by
soldiers in the war.
 Purchasing of war bonds: These posters advocated the
purchase of war bonds, which would help the government fund
the war.
 Support for the war at home: These posters encouraged
people not in the army to become involved in the war at home
by joining organizations or working in industries related to the
war ef fort.
EXAMPLES OF PROPAGANDA
Allied propaganda machine was one of the four reasons the U.S. went to war!
THE “LOST GENERATION”
This was the term given to individuals who experienced and survived WWI
Those who survived often suffered due to depression; felt hopelessness
And meaninglessness of life after the war
This mood inspired a literary, artistic and musical movements
Lost Generation Literature
Hemingway
Stein
Fitzgerald
Jazz and the Roaring 20s
The Jazz Age was a post World War I movement in the 1920's, from which jazz music
and dance emerged. Although the era ended with the beginning of The Great
Depression in the 1930's, jazz has lived on in American pop culture.
Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald were two very popular jazz artists. The
1920s, in the United States, was also known for the Harlem Renaissance.
ART MOVEMENT: SURREALISM
Surrealism is a
cultural movement
that began in the
early 1920s, and is
best known for its
visual artworks and
writings. The aim was
to "resolve the
previously
contradictory
conditions of dream
and reality."
The surrealists, such as Salvador Dali, were influenced by Sigmund Freud.
POETRY
John McCrae (1872-1918)
“In Flanders Fields”
Like literature, Poetry was
Also inspired by feelings of
Hopelessness, depression,
And meaninglessness of War
As well as post-war times.
Stephen Crane 1871–1900
“War is kind”