Modern Era Propaganda

The definition of propaganda is information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. People often mistaken propaganda as new and modern, but it 's been around since ancient Athens. Of course, their form of propaganda was much different than what we use in the modern age. Back in Athens, their form of propaganda was traveling prophets going city to city. In the modern age, the U.S. government has issued various different kinds of political artwork throughout the country, from the wall down the street to the paper on your doorstep. During the Modern Age, propaganda has fueled the United States’ citizens with patriotism because often the Artist put the enemy nation …show more content…
Posters like these often make it as if it 's the young youths patriotic duty to fight and protect what their military ancestors had done. Always fighting for a righteous reason and not selfish reasons *cough* oil *cough*. This one specifically shows that we fight and only fight for liberty like the soldiers that fought in the revolutionary war in 1778 against Great Britain. This one specifically was plastered on walls, but also put in the barracks of boot camps and bases on the eastern hemisphere. Refilling a soldier 's patriotism tank every time he doubts what he 's fighting for. To that soldier, the United States is the international good and the enemy is the international evil. As old as propaganda is it was the most effective in recorded history during World War Two. Each piece of propaganda has an underlying influence to the citizens. Pushing them to be patriotic and figuratively speaking “take one for the team”. No one of the nation was free from its influence being plastered all over the nation. World War Two was the rise of many new weapons of war, but it was also the ultimate utilization of one of the oldest. Propaganda is the oldest gun loaded with patriotism making the holder feel better and put its enemy