Propaganda WWI

Hey, guys.

All right, We're going to start our World War and

Propaganda Unit.

So obviously, before learning about how propaganda was used in

World War one, we gotta talk a little bit about

what propaganda is.

So propaganda is just the spreading of information to support

a cause.

So propaganda is not inherently good or bad.

It depends on the cause that is being spread and

how you feel about that cause.

So propaganda can come in any form.

It can be writing posters, music, poetry, commercials, anything.

Um, it's just the spreading of information by anyway to

support a specific cause.

Okay, So propaganda was used in World War one whole

lot. It was the first war where propaganda was widely

used to keep citizens at home informed about the war.

But also propaganda was used widely to keep support for

the war.

I'm alive and going.

So as we talked about warmer one was an especially

horrid, horrible, very deadly war.

We're not.

A whole lot of gains were made.

So it was really important at this time that the

people who were at home as well as abroad were,

um were kept to think that the war was worth

fighting. They needed to keep morale high so that the

people at home didn't start being in favor of pulling

out of the war, anything like that.

And so the governments that were involved in the war

often used patriotism as a large theme to keep people

engaged and keep people doing their part in the war

at home and abroad.

So, um, there's, ah here some examples of propaganda that

was used in favor of the war.

This was often put out by the governments who were

engaged in the war currently.

And, um, the most typical type of propaganda that we

see from World War One was in the form of

posters. And these posters would be posted around town in

common, meeting places in newspapers and things like that.

And that's how communication really flowed.

Because remember, this was a time where they didn't have

Internet. They didn't have, um, you know, phones to look

the news on.

Look up the news.

They instead often saw these posters that were hanging around

that were distributed by the government with the purpose of

keeping morale for the war high.

So this is one example this is probably the most

famous poster piece of propaganda that came out of World

War. The man in the image of someone to call

Uncle Sam, who was sort of this, um, ultimate idea

of patriotism and doing well for your country.

And here, Uncle Sam is pointing at the reader, saying,

I want you for the U.

S Army.

Okay, so obviously, this is a piece of propaganda.

This is a poster that was trying to encourage Americans

to join the Army and joined the war.

So clearly this piece of propaganda that cause is the

audience is the general male population that would be eligible

for the army in the United States.

The cause that they're trying to promote is joining the

Army. So you can join the war so you could

help your nation.

Does that make sense?

Okay, so we have another example here of propaganda, that

sort of, um, was trying to keep people keep around

high for defeating the enemy.

So the cause here is, you know, making sure that

people are joining the war and doing what they need

to do because the enemy is so bad.

It's so awful.

So in this imaged in this poster.

You can see the words Will you fight now or

wait for this?

You know, So we have to do what we do

now before the bad people, the bad Germans and Austria

Hungarians takeover.

And so this piece of propaganda was trying to encourage

people that they need toe fight now to join now,

before things get worse before those bad guys take over.

So that's another piece of propaganda.

And finally, the propaganda at that time was not just

targeted towards the men that they needed to fight, but

also the women.

And as we talked about women were I'm playing a

really large role in World War One and keeping that

communities going.

And so a lot of this propaganda also, um, targeted

women. So in this poster, you can see ah, woman

who is plowing the fields and it says, National Service,

Women's Land Army.

And so the point here is that they're trying to

say women you're at home, but that doesn't mean that

you can't still do your part, that you can't still

be contributing and doing what you need to do at

home to support this war.

So everyone was really targeted for propaganda.

Um, in these posters, and like I said, probably the

most common piece of propaganda that came out of well

over one were these posters.

Um, so you are, Ah, sheet for today.

What you have to fill out for today, Um, in

the to prove that you listen to this instead of

answering questions, all you have to do is sort of

interpret these four posters that I'm about to show you.

So feel free to pause the video here and go

to my website and open up the link for propaganda

interpretation. It just says four numbers there, and what you

need to do is write to good sentences interpreting the

poster. So just like I did in the last three,

I said, OK, we have a woman.

She's doing this.

It's obviously targeting women so that they do their part

at home.

That's all you have to do for these four.

Doesn't matter if you're exactly right, but I want to

just see that your understanding who this was targeting and

why I was being used and what the cause is,

remember the cause is all about the causes.

The central point of the propaganda.

What cause air they trying to promote or spread ideas

about? Okay, so number one that I need you to

answer is this poster here that says there is still

a place for you.

So a place in line for you.

Sorry. Will you fill it?

And you have a whole bunch of military men lined

up, and it says, um, the sign and the vacant

place says this space is reserved for a fit man.

So who do you think this poster is targeting?

And what is the cause that they're trying to promote

in this piece of propaganda?

That's what I would like you to write.

Okay, Number two that I would like you to write

about says women of Britain say go.

And we have these ah, women huddled together with a

child, staring longingly out a window at some soldiers marching

away. So who do you think this was targeting And

what was the cause?

What was the cause?

That they were trying to her mouth.

All right, we have number three, which says, destroy this

mad brute Enlist.

Okay, so you know, they have is really evil.

Picture of sort of a King Kong ask with this

maiden in distress in his arms and a bloody weapon,

this is a little a little more of a tough

one. But I know that you guys can get it.

Think it through.

What are they trying to show here?

Who is the audience and what is the cause?

What are they?

What is the cause they're trying to promote and don't

just say promote world war like No.

What are they actually trying to get out of the

people that they're showing these images to specifically?

All right.

And finally, number four.

It's a woman in ah American flag dress carrying a

basket through some feels that say, Well, you have a

car in victory.

So what are they trying to say?

Who are they targeting?

Um, and what is the cause?

All right.

Excellent job.

So those air one example of propaganda.

Those posters, I said that's probably the most common piece

of propaganda that came out of world war.

But another really interesting part, and this is sort of

horrible. Get into your projects is music as propaganda and

music as news.

So in water, one music was used as propaganda.

A lot on Dhe songs were played in pubs or

like the bars, and those songs told the news of

the day.

And this is largely because at this time in the

early 19 hundreds, in like 1914 and 1918 a large

amount of the American population most of the people could

not read or at least could not read English.

And so instead of getting your news from newspapers or

from pamphlets or from posters like we saw, they got

their news from music and this music.

What they would often do is go into the pubs

after work.

You know, stop in at the pubs and the entertainment

for the evening or the person singing at the piano

would sing about what was going on.

And that's how these people, the common folk, learned a

lot about what was actually happening.

So I have a couple examples of propaganda in song

during World War.

So the 1st 1 was sort of the beginning of

the world world, beginning when this whole thing was getting

going, and they really wanted people to join the army.

They needed people to go fight.

They wanted people to go fight.

They wanted to be patriotic.

So we have songs like this that come out.

It's called We don't want to lose You, but we

think you ought to go.

So it sounds a little morbid, but basically the point

of this song was to promote people to go fight

in the war but your name.

But now your country calls you to play a part

way. Oh, we go, Go on, Kuhio.

You. But we think you go So it seems a

little silly now.

But the point was is we don't want to lose

you. Love you.

You're amazing.

But you have to do your part like your fathers

did before and go and join the war.

So these sort of recruitment songs were not unpopular and

music halls as well as in pubs and things like

that. Um Then once everybody sort of realized how brutal

and gruesome and the extreme loss of life that was

happening in World War, they sort of backed off of

these recruitment songs a lot.

And we started getting more songs like this.

It's called Keep the Home Fires on.

While this own is not necessarily a anti war song

because the government controlled a whole lot about what could

be said about the war because they wanted to keep

this positive message.

Unlike now where you have ultimate freedom of speech.

They controlled a lot, said about 4 to £2 of

college, so some sort of shifted from being out with

go during the war.

You have to do it to like looking for a

positive hopefulness about the end of the war, so keep

the home fires burning.

One of the quotes that I pulled out of this

song says to all the boys who didn't make it

panto all those who did but whose lives were forever

sparred to all the mothers, wives and daughters who kept

the home fires burning them out of what?

This is sort of saying, like, You know, we gotta

keep going at home, even though it's bad, we keep

the home fires burning because our men will come home.

We will come together as a country at the end

eventually. Okay, so that was another example of kind of

the post recruitment era Onda.

Although I said that the, um, the sort of anti

war songs were not super popular.

They certainly started exists.

And so these were being fitted music halls where people

would gather for music.

But these were more.

The pubs and more of us handed things where people

were suddenly boycotting the war and showing how much they

disliked everything that was going on.

And so this song is called.

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier.

I worked on the line, continues on the solemn said.

I raised him to be my private joy.

And so this is an example.

It seems, sort of, um, low key compared to what

we're used to hearing about big protest songs.

But the point here is that they're saying, You know,

it's this was really a big deal in World War.

Want to come out on Blake Me say I didn't

raise my boy to be a search or he's not

supposed to disco and fight.

He's supposed to be my son.

He's supposed to be here and us, and he's supposed

to be contributing to society in different ways.

He's not just a soldier, so those are some examples

of how songs were used in World War Two promote

an idea right?

They promoted a lot of different ideas.

Some of the ideas that they promoted were saying, you

know, we need to recruit.

We need to have more people joining the war.

You know, the tone sort of changed after a while

to say, you know, just keep the home fires burning,

they'll come home eventually.

And then finally, they sort of ended up saying, um,

you know, this is this need to be over.

I did not raise my son to be a soldier.

He deserves better.

Eso I will briefly talk to you guys about this.

This is part of your project.

And this is how music has been used as propaganda

since world war.

So in modern times, So you have three parts.

Your project and detail information is going to be on

the website about this.

You don't have to get all of your information from

here, So we're gonna look a A music and propaganda

recently. Okay, So apart.

One which will be due on Tuesday.

It's so look at this on list I gave you.

Listen to the songs.

Look up the lyrics choose to songs that you want

to write about.

I need to answer the questions.

What is the event.

The song is about.

How does the singer feel about the event?

Are they in favor or against it?

What's the significance of the title?

And what's the toner mood of the speaker?

Okay, I will give you an example.

I'll do this for some songs as well, so you

can see what I'm looking for.

In addition, then you have to find two songs that

you listen to and answer the same questions.

And then you're going to have to write your own

song about a current event.

So you're gonna make your own propaganda again.

There will be detailed information about this on the website,

and we'll talk about this more as we zoom.

Um, but I hope you find this project fund.

We got to take a look at music and sort

of see how not much has changed, and we still

use music as propaganda even today.

All right, have a great rest of your day, guys,

let me know if you need help or clarification on

anything, and I'll see you on Zoom

Propaganda WWI

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