Transcript Demonizing the Enemy

World War II:
The Home Front
• Propaganda is the activity of
inducing others to behave in a
way in which they would not
behave in its absence.
• It is material distributed to win
people over to a particular way
of thinking.
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Propaganda
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Demonizing the enemy
Boosting morale
Encouraging support of wartime measures
Recruitment
Vigilance and paranoia
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Demonizing
the Enemy
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Who do you think “You
and I” refers to?
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What might the boot
symbolize?
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• What do
each of the
snakes
symbolize?
• How do
you know?
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• Why do you think
this snake is coiled
around the other?
• What might this
symbolize?
• Why do you think
this snake is the only
one striking out at
the boot?
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In your opinion, what
does “Beat Your
Promise” refer to?
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• What might the frog
symbolize?
• Why do you think it has
a bandage on its chin?
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• Propaganda
was also
used by the
Nazi’s to
get our
soldiers to
quit.
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• This type of propaganda
was distributed to our
soldiers after the D-Day
landing.
• They want them to question
their purpose and go home.
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Now let’s look at the
9 types of
propaganda.
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Bandwagon
• This appeals to the desire,
common to most of us, to
follow the crowd. Because the
propagandist wants us to follow
the crowd in masses, he directs
his appeal to groups held
together already by common
ties, ties of nationality, religion,
race, sex, vocation. Thus
propagandists campaigning for
or against a program will appeal
to us as Catholics, Protestants,
or Jews...as farmers or as school
teachers; as housewives or as
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adolescents.
Testimonial
• This is the
celebrity
endorsement of
a philosophy,
movement or
candidate.
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Plain Folks
• In this
propaganda a
candidate or
cause is
identified with
common people
from everyday
walks of life.
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Transfer
• Uses symbols,
quotes or images
of famous people
to convey a
message not
necessarily
associated with
them.
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Fear
• The idea is to
present a dreaded
circumstance and
usually follow it
up with the kind
of behavior
needed to avoid
that horrible
event.
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Logical Fallacies
• Example:
Bill Clinton supports
gun control
Communists regimes
support gun control.
Bill Clinton is a
communist
• Example:
Muslims believe
in God.
Christians believe
in God.
Muslims are
Christians
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Glittering Generalities
• A generally accepted virtue
is usually employed to stir
up favorable emotions. The
problem is that these words
mean different things to
different people. Look for
the words honor, freedom,
love of country…
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Name-Calling
• This ties a
person or a
cause to a
largely
perceived
negative
image.
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Scapegoat
• Scapegoating is
the act of
irrationally
holding a person,
or group of
people,
responsible for a
multitude of
problems.
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