World War II Propaganda's Role In American Culture

Propaganda has been a tool used to persuade people for as far as anyone could go back, but during World War II propaganda was used to persuade the people into enlisting into the armed forces to fight in the war, conserve necessities so they can be sent to the soldiers fighting, help finance the war by investing in bonds, and provide everything needed for the people fighting. It was all over including on posters, in pamphlets, over radio broadcasts, and in movies to help reel people into helping out with the war effort. It was plastered everywhere so that would be all anyone saw from when they woke up in the morning to do their daily routines until they fell asleep at night, they were consciously and subconsciously told what to do and what …show more content…
Almost anybody or a member of their family has taken part in the war somehow due to all of the propaganda around influencing them. Families now in this generation all have someone that they can look back on that took part in the war, not everyone fought in the actual combat of the war, but their lives were so influenced by the war in many different ways. Americans had been greatly influenced by the war and their surroundings having other people’s views and what they think everyone should have thought about the war during that time. The culture in America today would not be the same without the war and all of the images that were plastered everywhere telling people what their views should be on the war instead of letting them decide how they felt on their …show more content…
“The comic book embodied the virtues of what it was to fight evil during World War II.”(Johnson) These were created to influence children into helping for the war effort. Superman never actually fought in the war in any comic books instead he helped back at home in ways that the children could help too. Comic books were not just based on superheroes like Captain America and Superman, though comic books were made to target the youth at this time they became very popular to adults, especially soldiers trying to take their minds off of what was going on around them. Comic books were not made like any normal book they were made for people with even the lowest educations, it required very little reading and they were made to entertain people. Even though the main reason they were made was to influence children they were a cheap source of entertainment to adults, mainly soldiers trying to pass by