Wilson’s first term started with the ideal of nonintervention of the war, but for his re-election in 1916, Wilson continued with the emphasis of peace and his publicists used the slogan ” The man who kept America out of the war”( Grant 214). However, Wilson and the government were well aware of the imminent situation and knew that Wilson’s role in America would change. His role reversal began on April 2, 1917 when he requested Congress for a declaration of war. After the declaration of the war, Wilson created the Committee of Public Information (CPI), a government agency that sought to shape public opinion in support of the war through newspapers, pamphlets, speeches, films, and other media, in which he set a journalist, George Creel, as its leader. Under the direction of George Creel, the CPI was able create myriads of works of propaganda in order to entice American society. Creel relied heavily on visual forms of media because they proved to be very effective in American society (WWI: The Home Front 1). Creel employed an army of artists and they were put to work under the “Division of Pictorial Publicity”. Artists such as James Montgomery Flagg, Charles Dana Gibson, Harrison Fisher, and Joseph Pennell churned out patriotic works that enticed the American society dramatically (WWI: The Home Front 1). The patriotic efforts of artists were also…