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In just over 26 months (from April 14, 1917, to June 30, 1919) it used every medium available to create enthusiasm for the war effort and to enlist public support against the foreign and perceived domestic attempts to stop America's participation in the war. It is a notable example of propaganda in the United States.
Propaganda during the Cold War was at its peak in the early years, during the 1950s and 1960s. [14] The United States would make propaganda that criticized and belittled the enemy, the Soviet Union. The American government dispersed propaganda through movies, television, music, literature and art.
'Destroy this mad brute' A U.S. WWI propaganda poster depicting the Germans Uncle Sam's call to arms. The most influential man behind the propaganda in the United States was President Woodrow Wilson. In his famous January 1918 declaration, he outlined the "Fourteen Points," which he said that the United States would fight to defend. [18]
A propaganda poster produced by USIA, exhorting Northern Vietnamese residents to move South, in 1954. President Dwight D. Eisenhower established the United States Information Agency on August 1, 1953, [1] during the postwar tensions with the communist world known as the Cold War.
Before the United States declared war in 1917, the Woodrow Wilson administration established a propaganda department along similar lines. Propaganda experts Walter Lippmann and Edward Bernays participated in the Committee on Public Information (CPI), which was tasked with swaying popular opinion to encourage enlistment and war bond sales. [ 10 ]
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Pages in category "American propaganda during the Cold War" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
James Montgomery Flagg’s famous “Uncle Sam” propaganda poster, made during World War I. Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational ...