How Did Propaganda Influence Americans To Fight In World War II?

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Propaganda films are a type of film that involves some sort of propaganda. It can be packaged in many ways, most of them being documented based or fiction based screenplay which is produced to convince the viewers to a particular political issue or the viewer’s opinions of the matter and to provide subjective content that can be misleading to some people. Propaganda was used as a tool to influence nations to fight for their countries and get their citizens to join in their nation’s army and to support the wars that therein. Most propaganda films were used to convince citizens to fight and support the war and others were used to traumatize people into showing how bad the other countries were. What brings up an important question? How did propaganda influence Americans to fight in World War II?
During World War II, Propaganda was one of the main driving forces that kept the battles between nations heated to fight for the common goal. Like for instance, the propaganda between The US and Germany became very heated. The United States produced vast amounts of promotion to degrade one another’s countries. During that time became a great sense of nationalism that was rising up and propagandists were trying to find a way to up their game to bring …show more content…

The Americans used women in the war effort during World War II while men were fighting overseas. In Leila‘s book Mobilizing Women for War: German and American Propaganda, “women in wartime had taken up a lot of jobs that were reserved for men” (Rupp, 55) The woman was called into work in reserves for certain factories to fill in for the men overseas. Other jobs women filled in was a firefighter, ambulance, auxiliary services, and nurse. Nearing the end of the war the women did not want to go back to being just a housewife. The women in the workforce wanted to keep their jobs as they earned while the men were

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