WWI Posters

Propaganda is like advertisements it either like has a team or someones face or their website or something, it tries to get you to remember something

Prop Define

information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.


Posters

In the first poster the word YOU is big bold and colorful, this poster tries to make you feel guilty and alone, on one side there is just one person and they don't look very happy, but on the other side, they don't look happy, but there are a lot of them, it makes you feel like you have a duty and you aren't doing it if you don't enlist

In the next poster it compares even the most measly of jobs, such as screwing bolts in, seem heroic and important, like plunging a bayonet into the heart of the enemy, it makes you want to do your job well because it is important

In the last poster it is trying to get people to make socks for the army, this one isn't very effective I don't think but it does make you feel as if you are directly helping the soldiers and America win the war

Most of these poster are targeted at just your average Joe, just doing his thing and bam, look at that poster, well now I gotta enlist, or do my job well, or knit some socks because America needs me.

Everyone uses advertising and propaganda, why can't the government?

Well not many people just straight up want to go out and die in vain, but if you make it about your homeland, America the beautiful well then there's something worth fighting for and that's what the government wanted to do, they wanted to convince people that they should do something to help their country.