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What is Propaganda? What is Propaganda? Propaganda is a form of

communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position.

Propaganda can be expressed through speech, posters, songs, and any other methods of communicating with the general population.

Canadian PropagandaCanadian PropagandaCanada used propaganda during world war

one to convince the majority population to support and contribute to the Canadian Army

Canada used propaganda to promote criticisms towards the Germans.

The propagandas were word-based, and used simple images to convey their intent messages.

This poster uses simple words and image to convey its’ intent message

The soldier in the picture is an adaption of American Uncle Sam. The Uncle Sam poster was prevalent in the United states.

The soldier is pointing at the audience and asking civilians to buy war bonds to support the war.

This poster also uses simple languages and has a stoic background

Its’ purpose was most likely to tell people who stayed in Canada that they could still make a difference by helping the Red Cross.

It establishes an equivalence of sacrifice between those serving in the war and those staying at home. “Support at home saves lives abroad.

This poster depicts the incident of the sinking of Llandovery Castle. On June 27,1918, a German submarine attacked and sunk the ship, killing 146 army officers and 14 Canadian nurses. This incident sparked great enmity towards the Germans.

This poster can be considered as the perfect propaganda; it promotes hostility towards the Germans, encourages civilians to buy victory bonds, and emphasizes on German’s intolerable acts.

The word Kultur is used to define German beliefs. Basically, the poster is implying that not only the Alliance force is against Germany, but also humanity.

This poster uses strong images to impose the feeling of patriotism and nationalism.

Similar to Uncle Sam of the United States, Canada depicted itself as a woman with patriotic symbols

-The soldiers and ships going to Britain’s aid.

- This poster is encouraging young boys to take over their father’s farm works while their fathers were away in the war

- Military service was a sensitive subject to the farm families.

--The government often published The government often published front line information in the front line information in the newspaper to tell the public the newspaper to tell the public the things that were going on. By things that were going on. By doing so, the government could doing so, the government could fabricate certain information fabricate certain information and mislead the public. and mislead the public. Newsprint printed headlines that Newsprint printed headlines that provoked emotions without provoked emotions without considering the validity of the considering the validity of the information.information.

-The news article presented was -The news article presented was probably used to spark anger probably used to spark anger and resentment towards the and resentment towards the Germans. Germans.

Soldiers often sent letters back to their families. If a letter contained any information on the bad conditions of the war, the letter would be withdrawn and discarded. This method can be categorized as propaganda because it is misleading the Canadian population to think that the war is going well.

French Canadians and Anglican French Canadians and Anglican CanadiansCanadians

- During 1914, French-Canadian support declined due to unfair treatments of French culture and education. This decline led to the conscription act. The French- Canadians believed that the Anglican Canadians, not the Germans, were their true adversary.

-There were no significant differences between French propaganda posters and English posters. The language used was obviously different, but both type of posters encouraged support for the war.

How successful were the posters?How successful were the posters?

- The government collected a total of $1.34 billion from victory bonds. The money went into the supply of ammunition, food, and resources.

-Total recruitment was over 700,000.

-The posters were big contributors to the recruitment.

Propaganda WW2Propaganda WW2 Very similar to those posters during WW1, WW2 posters contain succinct language use.

- Uses emotional and inspirational images

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