1. Propaganda during WW2
Rosie the Riveter

2. What is Propaganda? The art of persuasion
The spreading of ideas, information or rumours for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person.
Intended to make us accept or approve something without looking closely at the evidence.
Utilizes emotion and avoids critical thinking.

3. Types of Propaganda Testimonial Glittering Generalities Transfer
Plain Folk
Bandwagon
Name calling
Card Stacking

4. Card Stacking: The strategy of showing the product’s best features, telling half-truths, and omitting or lying about its potential problems.

5. Testimonial: The use of well-known, respected people to endorse a product or service.

6. Transfer: The act of relating something or someone we like or respect with a product. Symbols are constantly used in this form of propaganda.

7. Bandwagon: Bandwagon attempts to persuade the target audience to take a course of action "everyone else is taking." "Join the crowd." This technique reinforces people's natural desire to be on the winning side.

8. Name calling: The use of names that evoke fear or hatred in the viewer
Name calling: The use of names that evoke fear or hatred in the viewer. The name-calling technique links a person, or idea, to a negative symbol.

9. Forms of Propaganda Art (posters, paintings, etc) Music
Films (cartoons, instructional, etc)
Books
Radio
Educational Material
Press

10. BUT WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA?
“In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily."
- ‪Joseph Goebbels