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ENGLISH PROPAGANDA DURING WWI

WORK ON PROPAGANDA POSTERS

I- REMINDER: THE CAUSES OF THE 1ST WORLD WAR

II- BRITAIN IN WAR

III- HOW PROPAGANDA POSTERS PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN WORLD WAR I?

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

Triple Alliance (central powers) was a military alliance among the German Empire, the Austro-

Hungarian Empire, and the kingdom of Italy.

Triple Entente (Allied powers) was the alliance linking the Russian

Empire, the French Third Republic, and the United Kingdom of Great

Britain

→ OPPOSING FORCES

1915

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

independenceEg: In the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Gavrilo Princip: a Serbian, member of a Yugoslav nationalist organisation.

I-3. Summer 1914: WW1 broke out!

He assassinated the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife on 28th June 1914.

28th July, 1914: Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia.

Russia mobilised in support of Serbia

2nd August, 1914: Ottoman Empire (Turkey) and Germany signed a secret treaty of alliance.

3rd August, 1914: Germany declared war on France.

4th August, 1914: Germany invaded neutral Belgium and Luxembourg (before moving towards France), leading Britain to declare war on Germany.

10th August, 1914: Austria-Hungary invaded Russia.

II- Britain in war

British Highland regiments marching through Boulogne

New York Times, 1919.

Head of the British column near Le Havre

Source : New York Times, 30 Aug 1914

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

III- HOW BRITISH 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.

EXAMPLE OFAUSTRALIAN PROPAGANDA

Unit: million

British women working in the arms industry

British leaflet dropped into German trenches by balloon:

FOR WHAT ARE YOU FIGHTING, MICHEL?

They tell you that you are fighting for the Fatherland. Have you ever thought why you are fighting?

You are fighting to glorify Hindenburg, to enrich Krupp. You are struggling for the Kaiser, the Junkers, and the militarists....

They promise you victory and peace. You poor fools! It was promised your comrades for more than three years. They have indeed found peace, deep in the grave, but victory did not come! . . .

It is for the Fatherland.... But what is your Fatherland? Is it the Crown Prince who offered up 600,000 men at Verdun? Is it Hindenburg, who with Ludendorff is many kilometers behind the front lines making more plans to give the English more cannon fodder (cannon fodder=chair à canon) ? Is it Krupp for whom each year of war means millions of marks? Is it the Prussian Junkers who still cry over your dead bodies for more annexations?

No, none of these is the Fatherland. You are the Fatherland.... The whole power of the Western world stands behind England and France and America! An army of ten million is being prepared ; soon it will come into the battle. Have you thought of that, Michel ?

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

Britain joined the war on August 4th 1914. She had a small professional army and no policy of national service so she 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.