WWI Propaganda

Propaganda is a form a advertisement that the government used during a time of war to get people to by bonds or enlist in the military. 

Real propaganda definition.  information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. ( Dictionary.com ) 

In the following pictures-  In the first picture the first thing that I noticed was that the sleeping women is dressed in a dress with pattern of the American Flag on it. The next thing that I noticed was that every word on the poster is capitalized, which makes the poster more intense to me. 

The second picture the first thing I notice is that the whole idea of this poster was a play on king Kong, even thought king Kong had not come out yet. There is a large gorilla holding a women. In the hand of the gorilla there is a stick that says "kulture", which is Bosnian for culture and Bosnia was part of Austria during this time. Also the gorilla is standing on soil that says America. So the point of this one is to get people to stop foreign culture from spreading into america. 

The third picture I noticed that the large face holding the bloody knife. This man is most likely German because the words say "beat back the Hun". It also is asking people to by liberty bonds, which is how the war was funded and was how they were going to "beat back the Hun". 

1. The author is trying to make people realize that America is at war and that they need people to help prepare goods and fight. The author uses the phrase "Civilization calls you"
which implies that not only does America need you but the world needs you. 

2. The author uses the gorilla holding the bat that says "Kulture" and who is standing on "american soil" to get people to enlist so they can keep foreign culture out. 

3. The author uses the mean, dark grey face holding the knife to spark anger in the Americans or who ever is viewing this so that they will buy bonds to fund the war. 

At this point in time I am okay with the government spending money on stuff like this because they had no television and radio was hard to come by, so they needed some way to spread the message and get people to enlist or buy bonds. 

I think the government felt they needed to do this because they believed people were oblivious to what was happening and they wanted to spread the word that America was at war and they needed soldiers and to sell bonds.