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Types of Propaganda

Name- Calling—the use of derogatory or negative words. It connects a person or a thing to a negative image or symbol

Glittering Generalities—these are virtue words (good, democracy, religious, motherhood) for which we have deep seeded ideas.

Euphemism—this is used when propagandists make something awful or negative more palatable.

Transfer—when the propagandist transfers the importance, power, or approval of something we respect and accept to something else they wish us to accept and respect. Symbols are often used.

Testimonial—the recommendation or endorsement of something by a person whose opinion is valued (or who is famous).

Bandwagon—everyone is doing it and so should you.

Fear—the propagandist warns that something horrible will happen to the group or person if they do not follow a specific course of action.

sample

Propaganda Gallery Walk

• Complete the organizer provided by looking at the posters around the room.

• Yes I know they’re printed on your paper… Get up anyway

Poster One—(Bandwagon) The poster encourages everyone join the war effort-to build arms for victory.

Poster Two—(Fear) If you do not buy war bonds-the Nazis will come for your children (fear).

Poster Three—(Euphemism and Fear) The poster shows a sailor dead on the beach-but his death is called a “loss.” The poster also uses fear as a motivator for not speaking out of turn.

Poster Four—(Glittering Generalities) It is “patriotic” to do these things

Poster Five—(Transfer) If you believe that the Revolutionary War was necessary (for liberty) then of course you should fight in this war (for liberty).

Poster Six—(Testimonial) There are few more recognizable images then Santa. Children and adults would have recognized the image.

Notes – WW2 Homefront

MobilizationOffice of War Information (1942)• war news• patriotism• recruit women to work• PropagandaWar Production Board• industries converted to war production• Allocated raw material • Organized scrap drives

– iron, aluminum, paper– Waste cooking fats for making

glycerin

Patch worn by Office or War Information personnel

A “War Educational Bulletin” produced by the War Production Board

EconomyWar Bonds• To help finance the war ($185 billion sold)• High interest rates

Office of Price Administration• limit wartime inflation• “ceiling prices” • Rationing

– meat, butter, sugar, coffee, shoes– Stamps and points system– Black market emerged

National War Labor Board• Mediated labor disputes during war• “No-strike pledge”

Each family received ration books (left) and stamps (above) for

determining its monthly allotment.

Rationing: Books and Stamps

WomenMilitary• Women’s Army Corps • WAVEs• WASPs• noncombat jobs:

switchboards, mail. nurses, clerical, drivers, storekeepers

Workforce• Defense plants• 18 million women• Earned less than men

WAC Director Col. Oveta Culp Hobby (right) confers with WAC members at

Mitchell Field, NY

Women in the Workforce

Factory workers polish Plexiglas nose cones for A-20 attack bombers

African Americans and WW2

Still faced discrimination• limited employment in

defense plants• Race riots • “Double V” Campaign

called for “victory at home and abroad”

African Americans and WW2

Tuskegee Airmen• All-black combat unit

formed in 1941

Fair Employment Act• prohibiting racial

discrimination in government defense agencies

Airmen Marcellus G. Smith and Roscoe C. Brown in Italy, 1945

The Navajo Code Talkers

• Used to transmit messages in the Pacific Theater

• Code never broken

Code Talkers Henry Bake and George Kirk send messages in the

Pacific Theater, 1943

Mexican Americans and WW2

Bracero Program• Mexican laborers brought in for

farm work

“Zoot Suit Riots” - LA• Conflicts between sailors on leave

and young Mexican Americans

Japanese American Internment

• FDR issued Executive Order 9066

• Removed more than 110,000 Japanese from the West Coast (2/3 citizens)

A map of relocation centers in the western U.S.

Japanese American Internment

• Forced to sell homes, businesses, property

• Poor conditions:– Barbed-wire enclosures– Barracks with cots and

no plumbing– Meager food budget

Korematsu v. U.S. (1942)

• Korematsu refused relocation

• Appealed on constitutional grounds

• S.C. ruled the order a valid during wartime

Japanese Internment

Round 1 - Watch U.S. Gov’t War Relocation Video

Discuss: • What were some of the reasons for internment

offered in the newsreel?• How does the newsreel portray internment? Is it

positive or negative?• Who do you think the audience was for this

newsreel?

Japanese Internment

Round 2 - Read ONLY documents B and C

Discuss• Do you find these documents more or less

trustworthy than the government newsreel? Why or why not?

• Why is the date of the Munson report important?

Japanese Internment

Round 3 - Read ONLY documents D and E

Discuss• Which of these documents do you think has a

better explanation of Japanese internment? Why?

• Why were Japanese Americans interned during World War II?