ENGLISH PROPAGANDA DURING WWI

WORK ON PROPAGANDA POSTERS

I- REMINDER: the causes of the 1st World War

I-1- A divided Europe: → Economic competition between industrial countries to win markets

→ Power competition : colonialism.eg: 2 crisis about Morocco between France and Germany (1905 and 1911)… war was imminent !

→ A strong Franco-German rivalry : France wanted to recover Alsace and Lorraine

→ OPPOSING FORCES

1915

I-2. Discontentment of minority groups wanting more rights or

independenceEg: In the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Gavrilo Princip: a Serbian.He assassinated the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife on June 28th 1914.

I-3. Summer 1914: WW1 broke out!

July 28, 1914: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.Russia mobilised in support of Serbia August 2, 1914: Ottoman Empire (Turkey) and Germany sign a secret treaty of alliance.August 3, 1914: Germany declares war on France.August 4, 1914: Germany invades neutral Belgium and Luxembourg (before moving towards France), leading Britain to declare war on Germany.August 10, 1914: Austria-Hungary invades Russia.

II- Britain in war

Britain joined the war on August 4th 1914. They had a small professional army and no policy of national service and they needed many more men for the British Expeditionary Force (BEF).

Consequently the British government quickly created a lot of recruitment posters.

Other posters followed, many stimulating wartime economy, others encouraging support for government policy by provoking indignation against the atrocities committed (always) by the German Army.

British Highland regiments marching through Boulogne, France

Nations, New York Times Co., New York, 1919.

Head of the British column marching to the camp near Le Havre

Source : New York Times, 30 Aug 1914 (Gertrude Robinson)

Present this document: nature, source, context, address, main ideas.Describe it:framing, composition ''colours'', light and shade, characters, setting, action, moment.Interpret it.

List the whole vocabulary you need to describe the fighting during WW1

Military Casualties in World War I 1914-1918

Belgium British Empire France Greece Italy Japan Montenegro Portugal Romania Russia Serbia United States Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire

45,550 942,135 1,368,000

23,098680,000

1,344 3,0008,145

300,0001,700,000

45,000116,516

1,200,000 87,495

1,935,000725,000

III- How propaganda posters played a major role in World War I?

1914: The famous World War I recruiting poster featuring Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State for War. (Photo by Hulton

Archive/Getty Images)

Examples of Propaganda

EXAMPLE OFAUSTRALIAN PROPAGANDA

Unit: million

British women working in the arms industry