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Propaganda in World War I: Ideas, Images, and Songs

Explore the power of propaganda in World War I through posters, speeches, and songs. Examine the ideas being suggested, the use of images and language, and the government's goals. Create your own propaganda poster and Voki to support a specific idea.

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Propaganda in World War I: Ideas, Images, and Songs

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  1. Propaganda Definition: information and ideas deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, nation, etc… Particular doctrine/principles spread by an organization or movement

  2. What would be the point of spreading information and ideas? Yes! You want to convince others that your idea is best. Or you want them to think or behave a certain way.

  3. Government use of Propaganda during the Great War What ideas are being suggested by this propaganda poster? How are images used to support those ideas? How is language used to create a strong image in the viewers mind? Why would the government create this poster? What is the government’s goal?

  4. German Propaganda Poster What ideas are being suggested by this propaganda poster? How are images used to support those ideas? How is language used to create a strong image in the viewers mind? Why would the government create this poster? What is the goal?

  5. Songs… • Throughout the war songs were used as propaganda tools as well. Listen to this song from 1914 and determine what the idea the song is trying to get across… • World War song • Lyrics: Your King and Country Want You • We've watched you playing cricket and every kind of game,At football, golf and polo you men have made your name.But now your country calls you to play your part in war.And no matter what befalls youWe shall love you all the more.So come and join the forcesAs your fathers did before. • Oh, we don't want to lose you but we think you ought to go.For your King and your country both need you so.We shall want you and miss youBut with all our might and mainWe shall cheer you, thank you, bless youWhen you come home again.

  6. Propaganda is very powerful in speeches… • You will be given a North Carolina Governor’s message to the General Assembly in 1919. • In this message the Governor is talking about the Great War and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. • With a partner do the following: • Underline or Circle the words in the message that create strong images for the reader • Answer the following: What ideas about the American people, the purpose of the Great War, President Wilson and Bolshevism is Governor Bickett trying to get across? • How do the words you underlined or circled help him get across those ideas?

  7. Create Propaganda • Part II: • You and your partner are to create a Propaganda Poster and a Voki to visually support Governor Bickett’s message. • Pick one of his ideas and create a propaganda poster to support it. Create a Voki about a different issue than the one you used on the poster. • Poster Rules: Your poster must have an image or images to visually represent the idea you have chosen. • A slogan to catch the eye • The slogan is not to be the whole poster! The image(s) is to be the focus.

  8. Voki Instructions • Use the computers to create your Voki. • Everything about your Voki (character, background, voice, words) should be used for propaganda purposes. • The speech your Voki makes should be your paraphrasing of one of Bickett’s ideas…Don’t copy!!!!

  9. Resources: • http://www.firstworldwar.com/ • http://www.firstworldwar.com/posters/uk.htm • World War I http://www.pptpalooza.net/ • http://www.voki.com

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