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Propaganda

Propaganda is the dissemination of misleading information to promote a political agenda or to damage opposition. It includes various strategies such as bandwagon appeals, name-calling, testimonials, and glittering generalities. Originating as a tool to recruit soldiers, propaganda played a crucial role during World Wars, manipulating public perception. In Canada, World War II campaigns produced successful propaganda efforts, raising billions for war support. Today, propaganda persists in various forms. This guide explores the concept, historical significance, and modern implications of propaganda.

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Propaganda

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  1. Propaganda By: Taylor and Donelle

  2. What is propaganda? • Propaganda is certain information of a misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view • A political strategy • Spreading of a rumor for a purpose of helping or injuring a person/cause • Ideas or allegations spread for ones cause to deliberately damage opposing side

  3. Forms of Propaganda • Bandwagon – high value of “joining the party” • Name calling – degrading opponents • Testimonial – an independent person being seen as trustworthy • Transfer – Associate the leader with trusted others • Plain Folk – use of everyday people for the selling of a product or service • Glittering Generalities – Act of referring to words that have a positive emotional response from an audience • Card Stacking – Showing the products best features and telling half-truths by lying about its potential problems

  4. How did it start? • Needed people to join the army • Couldn’t make people join so they persuaded them through propaganda • Wars had good reason to use propaganda • Persuaded people to join and hid the horrors and failure at the front lines (used to mislead and distract people from the truth)

  5. Canada and propaganda • Canada was very unprepared for a second World War in 1939, and had just begun to recover from the severe 10-year depression • The Bureau of Public Information and later the Wartime Information Board undertook a propaganda campaign for support of the upcoming war • Inexpensive to make and produced in a short period of time • over 700 posters were printed in sizes that appeared on everything • The posters were very successful and eleven Victory Bond campaigns raised over $8,000,000,000 for support of the war • 1,086,343 men and women to work full time in three • services • 1,239,327 working in war industries

  6. Modern day propaganda • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDT-LN5-Edw

  7. References • http://quizlet.com/2472312/7-types-of-propaganda-flash-cards/ • http://www.airmuseum.ca/postscan.html • http://library.thinkquest.org/C0111500/ww2/app.htm

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