How Did The Allies Use Propaganda In World War One

Propaganda was started in World War One because it was used at that time for military tactics. Now today it is used for everything in advertising, entertainment, and is still used for the army. The Allies used those propaganda tactics to their advantage and the Central Powers did too but, the Allies used theirs better. The use of propaganda by the Allied Powers during world war one was a major contributing factor to winning the war.
All the people for all countries in the Allied Power helped out because they were persuaded by the propaganda while the countries in the Central Powers didn’t have a ton of motivation to help. This was a crucial factor in the success of the world war. The Allied powers got their citizens to donate money, food and many factors that made them go out of the way to do. All of this was because of how they used propaganda to persuade their citizens. They used many tactics that made people want to donate, or build gardens. It also made the Central Powers look like horrible people and that what they were doing was even worse. …show more content…
Jo Fox in the article the legacy of World War One propaganda states, ”As evidence of Allied success, Campbell Stuart cited the German General Erich Ludendorff’s ‘pathetic.... apologia’ drawn from his War memories. Ludendorff attributed the collapse of the German army and of civilian morale to ‘mischievous and lying propaganda’, concluding that ‘we were hypnotised… as a rabbit is by a snake’. Allied propaganda had convincingly demonstrated German war guilt.” This is just one of the many ways propaganda was used to win the war for the Allied Powers. This was a poster that would make the people hate the Central Powers, which caused them to want want to donate money, or serve and that is what gave the Allies such a great advantage by using