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WORLD WAR II PROPAGANDA
OBJECTIVES:
1. You will analyze and describe
propaganda posters from World War II.
2. You will utilize your knowledge of
propaganda techniques/tools and
objectives in creating your own World
War II propaganda posters.
WHAT IS PROPAGANDA?
According to MerriamWebster it is, “Ideas, facts,
or allegations spread
deliberately to further
one's cause or to damage
an opposing cause.”
THEMES OF WARTIME
PROPAGANDA
1. Recruitment of soldiers or other wartime
personnel, either through a draft or
voluntary enlistment
2. Financing the war effort through the sale
of war bonds—loans from citizens to the
government—or new taxes
3. Eliminating dissent and unifying the
country behind the war effort
4. Conservation of resources—such as food,
oil, and steel—necessary to wage war
5. Increase factory production of war
materials
COMMON TOOLS USED IN
WARTIME PROPAGANDA
Demonization
Emotional Appeals
Name Calling
Patriotic Appeals
Half-Truths or Lies
Catchy Slogans
Evocative Visual Symbols
Humor or Caricatures
Demonization
This tool
involves
portraying
the enemy
as purely
evil,
menacing,
murderous,
and
aggressive.
Emotional Appeals
This tool
involves
playing on
people’s
emotions
to promote
the war
effort.
Name Calling
This tool
involves
using
loaded
labels to
encourage
hatred of
the
enemy.
Patriotic Appeals
This tool
involves
using
patriotic
language
or symbols
to appeal
to people’s
national
pride.
Half-Truths or Lies
This tool
involves
deception or
twisting the
truth in an
attempt to
make an
argument
more
persuasive.
Catchy Slogans
This tool
involves
using
memorable
phrases to
foster
support for
the war
effort.
Evocative Visual Symbols
This tool involves
using symbols
that appeal to
people’s
emotions—
like flags,
crosses, statues,
mothers and
children, and
uniforms—to
promote the war
effort.
Humor or Caricatures
This tool
involves
capturing
the
viewer’s
attention
through
the use of
humor to
promote
the war
effort.
PROPAGNDA POSTER #1
What do you see
here?
What is happening
in the poster?
What objective is the
poster designed to
achieve?
What propaganda
techniques (tools)
are used in this
poster?
POSTER #1 EXPLAINED
This poster depicts two children wearing gas
masks on their way to school with the
inscription, “Dear God, keep them safe!”
Objectives:
Financing the war
effort through the
sale of war bonds
Techniques/
Tools:
Emotional Appeals
Evocative Visual
Symbols
Catchy Slogan
IT’S NOW YOUR TURN…
As a group, you will carefully
examine WWII propaganda
posters, determine the objective
that you think the posters are
trying to achieve and what
propaganda techniques/tools are
being used. Record your findings
on handout #2.