1. Why did people go to fight in WW1?
L/O:
To explain what is meant by the term propaganda
To interpret and produce propaganda posters
Homework: Create your own propaganda poster
How does this poster make you feel?
What do you notice about the use of type and choice of words?
(The man in the poster is Kitchener the British War Secretary)

2. Key terms: Patriotism: Propaganda: Conscientious objector:
To be very proud of your own country
Material used to spread particular ideas (adverts, posters, speeches)
Someone who refuses to go to war because of their moral values

3. Persuade me… Listen to the following speech from 1914
What is he saying about the war?
How does he make you feel about the Germans?
How is he trying to persuade you to go to war?

4. But as casualties increased we needed more men to sign up and fight.
Listen to the following speech from 1914
What is he saying about the war?
How does he make you feel about the Germans?
How is he trying to persuade you to go to war?
Televisions and the Internet did not exist in the early 1900’s.
In summer 1914 WWI broke out. Battles were being fought in Belgium and France. The British government were fighting Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy, alongside the other Allied powers, including France and Russia.
So the Government used recruitment drives throughout the towns and villages.
They sent members of the armed forces into the streets and persuaded boys and men to sign up there and then.
But as casualties increased we needed more men to sign up and fight.

5. Patriotism = a loyalty to your nation or country
The Government also used posters ; displaying powerful images and statements that used guilt and patriotism as a persuasive device.
The effect is that you feel that the General in the image is speaking directly to you.
This poster is one of the most famous. The finger pointing directly at the viewer and the use of personal pronoun, ‘YOU’, draws the viewer in.

6. The recruitment campaigns are referred to as ‘PROPAGANDA’.
The propaganda posters used:
Exaggeration;
Emotive
Language;
Rhetorical
questions;
Powerful
imagery.
PROPAGANDA is information that is not always completely true, but it is used to scare and inspire people to act a certain way – in this case to sign up to the military and fight in the war.
To persuade men to sign up to war.

7. If the men refused to go, the women were told to place a white feather in their jacket so that everyone in the town could see that they were a ‘ConscientiousObjector’
Some posters also appealed to the women – wives, mothers and daughters.
They were asked to persuade their men that it was right for them to go and fight in honour of their country.
A conscientious objector refused to go to war for reasons of morals or religion.

8. Here is a selection of posters that were displayed throughout Great Britain during the recruitment drive for WWI…
You will each be given ONE in your PAIRS and you need to annotate them and say how they persuade men to go and fight.
Listen to the music and think about how they persuade you ……
THINK: How will you feel if you do not go? What language is used? Pictures? Guilt?
10 minutes!
Some of you will then come up and explain your poster to the class.

18. Conscription
By Christmas 1914 it was clear that this was not going to be a short war. Reports were coming back of men dying in the trenches and by 1916 the government were forced to introduce conscription. You will now find out all about it!