WWI RECRUITMENT WEBQUEST QUESTION #5
During World War One, the governments of all of the participating countries needed their citizens' support: enlisting in the army, buying war savings bonds, rationing food, et cetera. In order to get them to give their support, the governments of these countries would make posters. These posters used powerful pictures and sometimes catchy titles to get the citizens' support, whether it be to enlist or simply to ration a small percent of their bread. Sometimes though, the posters would be propaganda, stretching the truth, making it seem worse than it is, and the people believed it and were convinced that they needed to help. Although it may seem a tad wrong from a moral point of view for being misleading,
During World War One, the governments of all of the participating countries needed their citizens' support: enlisting in the army, buying war savings bonds, rationing food, et cetera. In order to get them to give their support, the governments of these countries would make posters. These posters used powerful pictures and sometimes catchy titles to get the citizens' support, whether it be to enlist or simply to ration a small percent of their bread. Sometimes though, the posters would be propaganda, stretching the truth, making it seem worse than it is, and the people believed it and were convinced that they needed to help. Although it may seem a tad wrong from a moral point of view for being misleading,