World War II: The Home Front

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World War II The Home Front
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• Propaganda is the activity of inducing others to
  behave in a way in which they would not behave in
  its absence.
• It is material distributed to win people over to
  a particular way of thinking.

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Propaganda

• Demonizing the enemy
• Boosting morale
• Encouraging support of wartime measures
• Recruitment
• Vigilance and paranoia

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Demonizing the Enemy
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• Who do you think You and I refers to?

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• What might the boot symbolize?

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• What do each of the snakes symbolize?
• How do you know?

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• Why do you think this snake is coiled around the
  other?
• What might this symbolize?
• Why do you think this snake is the only one
  striking out at the boot?

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• In your opinion, what does Beat Your Promise
  refer to?

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• What might the frog symbolize?
• Why do you think it has a bandage on its chin?

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• Propaganda was also used by the Nazis to get our
  soldiers to quit.

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• This type of propaganda was distributed to our
  soldiers after the D-Day landing.
• They want them to question their purpose and go
  home.

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Now lets look at the 9 types of propaganda.
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Bandwagon

• This appeals to the desire, common to most of us,
  to follow the crowd. Because the propagandist
  wants us to follow the crowd in masses, he
  directs his appeal to groups held together
  already by common ties, ties of nationality,
  religion, race, sex, vocation. Thus propagandists
  campaigning for or against a program will appeal
  to us as Catholics, Protestants, or Jews...as
  farmers or as school teachers as housewives or
  as adolescents.

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Testimonial

• This is the celebrity endorsement of a
  philosophy, movement or candidate.

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Plain Folks

• In this propaganda a candidate or cause is
  identified with common people from everyday walks
  of life.

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Transfer

• Uses symbols, quotes or images of famous people
  to convey a message not necessarily associated
  with them.

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Fear

• The idea is to present a dreaded circumstance and
  usually follow it up with the kind of behavior
  needed to avoid that horrible event.

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Logical Fallacies

• Example
• Bill Clinton supports gun control
• Communists regimes support gun control.
• Bill Clinton is a communist

• Example
• Muslims believe in God.
• Christians believe in God.
• Muslims are Christians

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Glittering Generalities

• A generally accepted virtue is usually employed
  to stir up favorable emotions. The problem is
  that these words mean different things to
  different people. Look for the words honor,
  freedom, love of country

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Name-Calling

• This ties a person or a cause to a largely
  perceived negative image.

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Scapegoat

• Scapegoating is the act of irrationally holding a
  person, or group of people, responsible for a
  multitude of problems.