How Was The Kaisers Portrayed In This Cartoon

Brandon Gonzalez
Per. 3
APUSH
1/25/11
APUSH Ch. 33 Assignment
I.
1. The three adjectives I would use to describe the Kaiser portrayed in this cartoon would be evil, defiant and powerful. The Kaiser’s sword, hat and cape and altogether his outfit give me the impression that he is a powerful figure. The cartoonist creates an evil impression of the Kaiser by the dark color the cartoonist uses for the Kaiser and also the skull on the flag that is located next to the Kaiser. Also the disapproving and snobbish look on the Kaiser’s face gives the impression that the Kaiser is defiant.
2. The image of the American soldier stopping the Hun from attacking the woman and her child and the words “HALT the HUN!” created an emotional appeal which helped persuade Americans to buy U.S. government bonds to fund the war and also helped persuade young men to enlist in the war. The German is posed as a threat to society so this helps persuade Americans that Germany is the enemy and that they need to stop the Germans. The fight that is assumed to be is World War I.
3.
The connections between soldiers fighting trench warfare and war gardens are that the boy with a hoe could represent a soldier with his weapon and the ground in which the boy is on may represent the trenches the soldiers fought on. Also the boy is not standing but his head and his weapon is only thing that is seen. This can be compared to a soldier in trench warfare because a soldier would not stand up but would be in the same position as the boy in poster is portrayed for if the soldier would stand up, then the soldier would die. The slogan helps persuade people to keep raising food because this food is also being raised to not only help the U.S. soldiers but also all of America and its allies as well and also if they keep raising this food they can achieve peace altogether. Also raising more food would ease pressure on food
supplies.
4. The point of the cartoon is convince to help spread awareness to unemployed males that if they do not work they will be forced to fight in the war. There could be another point in which it could be to help the war effort in some way in order to help the U.S. soldiers and altogether have victory in this war. Uncle Sam is both inviting and threatening and the viewer may think that the draft may be used in order to get unemployed males to find jobs and work to help the war effort or that the draft is used in order to help bring young males to enlist in the army.
II.
1. Wilson offered to mediate a peace between the U.S. and Germany but this did not work out. Berlin then decided on unrestricted submarine warfare to starve Britain into terms. Wilson severed diplomatic relations on 3 February. American public opinion was also inflamed by the Zimmermann note, in which Germany sought a military alliance with Mexico against the United States. When submarines sank three American merchant ships, Wilson abandoned temporary armed neutrality and decided to take the United States into the war, in part because his strict accountability policy had failed and in part because he wanted the United States to help shape a treaty for peace. Wilson turned the war into an ideological crusade by declaring the twin goals of “a war to end war “and a crusade “to make the world safe for democracy” and hypnotized the nation with these ideals. He preached that America did not fight for the sake of riches or territorial conquests but the Republic sought only to shape an international order in which democracy could flourish without the fear of power-crazed autocrats and militarists.