WWI: Personal Learning Assessment. "How were propaganda posters used to influence people?" by Aidan Garrity https://padlet.com/aidan_garrity/kkxdwkrs57et SS P2 en-us 2018-10-04 13:32:08 UTC 2025-10-05 11:45:21 UTC hello@padlet.com According to slide 9 of the "Propaganda posters of World War One" google slide presentation, The posters demonized/dehumanized the enemy. aidan_garrity https://padlet.com/aidan_garrity/kkxdwkrs57et/wish/289125921 2018-10-04 13:37:02 UTC https://padlet.com/aidan_garrity/kkxdwkrs57et/wish/289125921 If the people at home hated the enemy, then they would want to join the military, or buy war bonds to support the war, all because of the poster that depicted the Germans as terrible barbarians. aidan_garrity https://padlet.com/aidan_garrity/kkxdwkrs57et/wish/289127571 2018-10-04 13:39:32 UTC https://padlet.com/aidan_garrity/kkxdwkrs57et/wish/289127571 aidan_garrity https://padlet.com/aidan_garrity/kkxdwkrs57et/wish/289130041 2018-10-04 13:43:20 UTC https://padlet.com/aidan_garrity/kkxdwkrs57et/wish/289130041 The Call to Freedom textbook states on page 337, that "He got farmers to grow more food by promising higher prices for crops... Hoover also urged Americans to eat less by calling for “meatless Mondays” and “wheat-less Wednesdays.” He asked people to plant vegetables at home in “victory gardens.” aidan_garrity https://padlet.com/aidan_garrity/kkxdwkrs57et/wish/289131214 2018-10-04 13:45:04 UTC https://padlet.com/aidan_garrity/kkxdwkrs57et/wish/289131214 The American people were encouraged and influenced by propaganda and Herbert Hoover’s promises and suggestions of higher crop prices, and making “meatless Mondays” and “wheatless Wednesdays.” Hoover claimed that as long as the soldiers were well fed, then we will win. The American people wanted to win the war, so they listened to Hoover and saved food. aidan_garrity https://padlet.com/aidan_garrity/kkxdwkrs57et/wish/289132605 2018-10-04 13:47:04 UTC https://padlet.com/aidan_garrity/kkxdwkrs57et/wish/289132605 aidan_garrity https://padlet.com/aidan_garrity/kkxdwkrs57et/wish/290739257 2018-10-09 13:55:00 UTC https://padlet.com/aidan_garrity/kkxdwkrs57et/wish/290739257 In the "Propaganda During World War One" video on "The Great War" YouTube channel, they state that "(German) soldiers complained to the high command that they couldn’t see themselves in stories about their own regiment, or their own frontline actions.” aidan_garrity https://padlet.com/aidan_garrity/kkxdwkrs57et/wish/290742873 2018-10-09 13:59:22 UTC https://padlet.com/aidan_garrity/kkxdwkrs57et/wish/290742873 Writers skewed the stories and made up fake news so that the public would be fooled about certain things going wrong with the war, and the public may have more support for the war if they were just hearing good things about it. aidan_garrity https://padlet.com/aidan_garrity/kkxdwkrs57et/wish/290744892 2018-10-09 14:02:10 UTC https://padlet.com/aidan_garrity/kkxdwkrs57et/wish/290744892 aidan_garrity https://padlet.com/aidan_garrity/kkxdwkrs57et/wish/290746932 2018-10-09 14:04:41 UTC https://padlet.com/aidan_garrity/kkxdwkrs57et/wish/290746932 According to the "Propaganda Posters of World War One" google slides presentation, The Great War YouTube channel, and the Call To Freedom textbook, propaganda posters were used to influence people to save food, support the war, and hate the enemy. aidan_garrity https://padlet.com/aidan_garrity/kkxdwkrs57et/wish/290748507 2018-10-09 14:06:36 UTC https://padlet.com/aidan_garrity/kkxdwkrs57et/wish/290748507