Propaganda is the way in which you persuade a person to your way of thinking by showing one sided views of an event to make somebody think in a certain way or to mask the truth. Propaganda can be in the form if posters, newspapers, speeches, photographs, rumours, cinema and music.

In the beginning of the war the people thought of war as an adventure, a way to make money or a way of becoming a hero this is because world war one was the first war of its kind a modern war and so the government decided to use these things in their propaganda campaigns for e.g. the government would put up posters a happy family in which the children would ask their father “what was the war like father?” which suggest you must go to war because you will end up in a situation like this and you will be seen as a coward if you say that you stayed at home. The government also used posters to recruit and mobilise making the troops hate the other side e.g. the government would paint horrible c

The government also used books as a method of propaganda because no matter what is going on people will always read books because for many people it is a favoured pass time and so the government published many books and articles about the war that was going on across the world, none of which however would tell the truth about the war and what was actually happening in the field or the statistics to do with losses and government spending however people seemed to read these books as we can find out by the amount of books that were sold by the Oxford university, who published their own pro war book at no cost to the government which was great because 50,000 people bought that book and so it was spread amongst many people because books stay in circulation for a long time and can be passed down to the next generation for them to read which means that books were a very good way for the government to spread its propaganda.

The government also used peer pressure to get people to join the army because if your friends joined the army then you would be left as the coward in you area and it was portrayed as if you staying should be frowned upon, also the army encouraged friends to join in groups and tried to put people in the same unit.

The government also brought patriotism into its propaganda scheme by making a poster “your country NEED YOU” with a pictu

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