Mobilisierung des amerikanischen Volks zum Eintritt in den Ersten Weltkrieg mithilfe von Bildpropaganda

• Main Author: Simone Stiehl
• Format: Article
• Language: deu
• Published: Universität Mainz 2014-12-01
• Series: Skriptum : Studentische Onlinezeitschrift für Geschichte und Geschichtsdidaktik
• Subjects: USA; Erster Weltkrieg; Bildpropaganda
• Online Access: http://www.skriptum-geschichte.de/2014/heft-2/mobilisierung-des-amerikanischen-volks-zum-eintritt-in-den-ersten-weltkrieg-mithilfe-von-bildpropaganda.html

This study analyses how, after years of neutrality, the government of the USA managed to convince their multicultural society that an American entry into the First World War was necessary. It is presumed that the suggestive power of the state run poster propaganda greatly contributed to winning the approval of the majority of Americans, which resonated in the United States’ total mobilization. Three posters of the Committee on Public Information and the U. S. Food Administration are used to demonstrate how the enemy was represented and how the inclusion of children and emigrants helped to evoke a patriotic spirit as well as an idea of national unity in the observer.