Why Did Propaganda Enter Ww1

Most conspiracies are based on the idea the government would hide information from the population, such as E.T.s, bombs, falling airplanes, and wars. However, governments sometimes actually spread information about others to convince the population to support their ideas.

As a first example, let’s take how the American president Woodrow Wilson could get the population’s support to enter in the World War I. Up to 1916, Wilson kept the U.S out of the war in a spirit of friendliness and impartiality, and he even made offers to mediate some conflicts, however, some “incidents” led to a change of mind. In 1915, Americans were dead in some German attacks against British ships, and Wilson tried to appeal to the end of the war without success. For elections, he used the slogan “He kept us out the war”, and made another mediation offer at the end of 1916 to end the war. Nevertheless, in march 1917, besides other “incidents”, several Americans ships were sunk by Germans, and the government cabinet voted to enter the war.

To change the mass’ thoughts, much propaganda was used, and amongst them, some posters pictured Germans and their allies as inhumane savages, as well as the idea that Germans had spies and saboteurs inside the US. Propaganda was used in several wars since the WW1 to ensure people have the knowledge the government want
The propaganda used by the Nazis was the key to their power and policies, and their main objectives was to establish enemies in the population’s minds such as the nations that imposed the Treaty of Versailles, Jews, Romani, homosexuals, and Bolsheviks. Jews were blamed for robbing Germans jobs and for the Bolshevism, communism, and Marxism (the major enemies of the Germany in Hitler’s mind). A Nazi newspaper, even told Germans that Jews kidnapped small children before they needed the blood of a Christian