1. Analyzing World War I Propaganda

2. Objectives examine WWI propaganda posters
discuss the objectives, uses, and successes of propaganda

3. You see it everyday… Propaganda and advertising are very similar
Advertising is often meant to get people to buy a product or use a service
Propaganda is meant to get people to think, act, or feel a particular way
Advertisers and Propagandists use many of the same tools—slogans, humor, caricatures, emotional images or language, and visual symbols

7. What are we looking for?
What is your immediate reaction to the poster? What is happening in the poster?
Does the poster display its author (Government agency or private group)?
What are the important symbols used, if any? Do you think the colors used are significant?
What objective is the poster designed to achieve? Is the message of the poster mainly visual, verbal, or both?
What propaganda tools are used in this poster

8. Example
What is your immediate reaction to the poster? What is happening in the poster?
Does the poster display its author (Government agency or private group)?
What are the important symbols used, if any? Do you think the colors used are significant?
What objective is the poster designed to achieve? Is the message of the poster mainly visual, verbal, or both?
What propaganda tools are used in this poster

9. Response: sad, but honorable
Response: sad, but honorable. Sad the boy has no mom, uplifting the woman is there to help. A Red Cross nurse is comforting a possibly parentless child. She is the caring person in this boys life right now.
Does not print the name, but is the American Red cross.
The red of the cross is universal for care and help. White=good or pure in what she is wearing. Death and destruction is behind her. A child in need. A woman doing her part for the war
Sign women up to help the war/care effort. Very effective by using the symbol of a motherless child
Generalities, simplification, moral labels, plain folks, virtue words, slogans
Example