Propaganda as a political weapon in World War I
Introduction
In World War I propaganda was barely used, what the countries that were in conflict used it to publicize their opinions as international ideas.
Both books, newspapers and cartoons were used to influence neutral countries and enemies. Governments based their resources on producing material designed to shape the opinion and action internationally. The reason was to justify their actions and generate international support, they resulted in the most powerful propaganda ever produced.
Propaganda was the secret weapon for all countries because they realized that they obtained greater results and people joined more as was an effective way to attack the enemy and take it by surprise. In addition, they used dam reports, brochures, cartoons and books to get the information in a faster and more efficient way if to influence it should be intelligent and effective.
Developing
The First World War is presented in appearance as the victory of liberal democracies over their authoritarian regimes, the conflict revalues the concepts of authority and efficacy leading to new political models.
The reason that the British decidepro of the victorious war.
In World War I in addition to information or manipulation poisoning campaigns, orthodox forms of communication were also used as well as those that had developed in advertising during the 19th century. This same war marks the history of propaganda with the position of NORMEs Information campaigns as well as planned propaganda.
The objective of these campaigns was for citizens to knead their homeland and hate their enemies and work in armament factories and others. The support of citizens to government, national in times of war.
The propagandas contained value, hate messages, stimulate industrial effort, promote the savings of certain products, such as fuel and certain food, ask for discretion at the danger of spies, obtain war loans, organize health services, firefighters orpolice and among others. Likewise, there were charitable campaigns aimed at helping combatants, war prisoners, mutilated and civil victims.
In attempts to influence public opinion in neutral countries, propaganda was also used directly against enemies. One of his strategies was to use airplanes and balloons to launch pamphlets and posters on combat forces and civilians.
The most effective effect was the most detrimental legacy was the myth that won the validity in Germany that the war was lost not on the battles field but through the influence of propaganda in the German people.
In World War I was the first time that the capitalist state took the massive command and control of information, through propaganda and censorship, its end was the victory in the war. The mission of propaganda is to concentrate all the material, physical and psychological energies of the nation taking them the same point of view, the defeat of the enemy. His mission and objective of World War I was others like these:
War financing. From the beginning, it was evident that the normal budget was not going to cover some costs of the conflict that were increasing to inconceivable levels during the war. The solution was to request the country’s accumulated savings through always volunteer war loans even in autocratic regimes.
Recruitment for armies. For the powers of the European continent where military service was mandatory for many years, the recruitment problem was not especially raised. On the other hand, in the British Empire and in the United States the thing was very different: Great Britain did not impose military service until 1916, Canada until 1917, and in Australia, two referendums on the subject were negative, arranging the country only of volunteers;In the United States, a bill was ready for when the country went into war, but the lack of enthusiasm for the war in the population was such that the government had to "recruit" people to support the project.
Support for industry and agriculture. The entire productive apparatus of the Nation had to function constantly at full performance and be totally oriented towards military objectives. That inevitably means austerity for the general population but also entails a great disorder in the organization of industry and agriculture: women must replace men from the front, in the fields and in the factories. (International, 2015)
In the first months of 1915 censorship and information control predominated. The confrontation between the newspapers and the different censorship bodies, the propaganda supplants the information. In different countries they try to launch propaganda organizations but there is still no systematization.
The First World War was like the boom for propaganda began to be used in the war, using large billboards as supports, but above all the infrastructure necessary for the new medium, roads, as well as explosion motor vehicles is established. Germany’s propaganda was ineffective compared to the British, their mistake was the lack of coordination and confrontation between civilians and military ended with total military censorship. In the war, propaganda demonstrated its great efficacy, as well as changing the orientation of public opinion.
The use of propaganda began to be used the same when the Germans cut the underwater cable that connects almost everyone, which caused the loss of communications leads to the use of propaganda through cartoons, newspapers and brochures
conclusion
Propaganda is a fundamental weapon both political, economic and much more military because this influence too much on the ideas and thoughts of the population. We can see it in the electoral seasons where the power of conviction is so effective because radio, television, magazine, and much more on the Internet than an incredible leakage of information and that distorts everything. Propaganda in certain things is of great help as in cases of natural disasters, in the search for people, as well as in the recruitment of people to belong to the Armed Forces. Their disadvantages are when in unnecessary cases it summons the people to do bad things to reveal themselves with the authorities and destroy themselves. Because black and distorted propagand. That is why you have to know and know all the information, make sure that everything we see and read is true.
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