World War One Propaganda

Committee on Public Information

● promote patriotism

● justify the war

● raise money

● procure resources and

● promote accepted

standards of

behaviour.

George Creel

Four Minute Men

Financing the Great War

The US Food Administration

http://youtube.com/v/cPk21C0Wpkg

Why did it work?

●appeal to patriotism●military superiority●personal rejuvenation

Effect :The CPI’s success in marketing the war

allowed companies to market their products

using the war as a marketing device

‘The Super-Pen for Our Super-Men’

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http://www.richardspens.com/?page=ref/history/war_and_fp.htm