The Era Of The Great War #8: Propaganda

Question 1

What were the four main jobs of propaganda?

Answer 1

• Support rationing
• Join workforce
• Support sending men
• Make Germans look bad

Question 2

Before rationing, what did propaganda posters encourage?

Answer 2

• waste less food
• grow in allotments
• voluntary rationing

Question 3

Post-rationing, what did propaganda posters do?

Answer 3

• helped people to understand rationing and how to do best

Question 4

How did propaganda posters encourage people to join the workforce?

Answer 4

• fill in for men’s industry jobs
• many women (+men) who believed their role was in the home needed convincing

Question 5

How did propaganda posters support sending men to war?

Answer 5

• it was a lot to ask of families to send their sons, brothers, and fathers to war
• so input convinced families to let them

Question 6

Women of Britain say Go!

Answer 6

Encouraged women to let their husbands and the fathers of their children to go to war : it was the ‘noble’ thing

Question 7

Women of Britain say Go!

Answer 7

Encouraged women to let their husbands (and the fathers of their children) to go to war as it was nuble and their duty

Question 8

Don’t Waste Bread! Save two thick slices everyday and deafest the ‘U’Boat

Answer 8

Encouraged people at home (specifically women) to save food at home to help ration and defend against the blockade

Question 9

These women are doing their bit
Learn to make munitions

Answer 9

Encouraged women to go into munitions factories: to be part of something bigger and help the war effort