USA HISTORY

____ was used to promote conscription in Germany, Australia and Great Britain.

(A) alliances

(B) ** propaganda

(C) rationing

(D) militarism

Concept note-1: -Both sides made use of exaggerated stereotypes. The ‘Yes’ side created grotesque images of the brutal ‘Hun’, shown raping and pillaging defenceless women and children, or trampling British ‘Liberty’ underfoot. One of the most extreme was drawn by Norman Lindsay for the last great recruiting drive.

Concept note-2: -In the First World War, British propaganda took various forms, including pictures, literature and film. Britain also placed significant emphasis on atrocity propaganda as a way of mobilising public opinion against Imperial Germany and the Central Powers during the First World War.

Concept note-3: -Propaganda was deployed to encourage people to volunteer for onerous or dangerous war work, such as factories or Home Guard. Male conscription ensured that general recruitment posters were not needed, but specialist services posters did exist, and many posters aimed at women such as Land Army, or ATS.

Concept note-4: -Australian propaganda was designed to maintain public anger about German atrocities and idealise Australian soldiers. Most pieces promoted enlistment in some way or another and the most violent propaganda images surfaced around the time of the conscription debates.