Introduction to Propaganda in WWI
In this lesson, students will be introduced to propaganda produced during World War I. Propaganda greatly influenced the home front as well as soldiers’ morale, ranging from recruitment and enlistment ads, to posters asking for wartime loans, to images promoting morale at home. Propaganda influenced the economy during and after WWI, enlistment numbers, recruitment of women’s aid and service organizations, and helped to power the America’s role in the war. This lesson will define propaganda by using primary sources from WWI, outline the influence of propaganda on WWI, and allow students to engage with the primary sources as well as examples of contemporary propaganda through new knowledge.