How did the government use propaganda during World War One to influence people?
Answer Propaganda played a two part role in WW I. Initially the European nations involved with the war targeted their enemies in posters depicting atrocities etc played out by their enemies on the innocent civilian populations. IN the allied nations, mainly England and France, depictions of German soldiers killing babies and women were commonplace and stirred emotion within the population already eager to join the war effort. German depicted Britian as power hungry war mongerers who were injustly restriciting German expansion in the world. When the US entered the war, actions such as the sinking of the Lusitania became poster worthy items to stir the population into supporting the war effort. The other role that propaganda palyed, was to cover up the actual horrors of what was going on on the battlefields themselves. As the war dragged on and the casualty rates sky rocketed beyond all expectations, recruiting posters reinforced the ideas at home that the war was going well and that mor