Propaganda/Homefront/TOV/LON

Question 1

What’s propaganda/what was it used for?

Answer 1

Propaganda = message presentation to persuade/influence people to serve an agenda

Used for recruitment/enlistment, to ration food, for general public support, and for victory bonds (loans to government that can be redeemed with interest after 5/10/20 years).

Question 2

7 types of propaganda

Answer 2

1. Name-calling: Putting a bad label/idea on someone
2. Card-stacking: Making one side look best with facts
3. Bandwagon: Everyone’s doing it, so wy not you?
4. Testimonial: Using people with influence/status to endorse product
5. Plain folk = regular people used (humble, to be trusted)
6. Transfer = playing with one’s emotions
7. Glittery generality = vague, sweeping statements playing into one’s freedom, patrionism, and family values.

Question 3

What did women do in the war?

Answer 3

Collected money, knit socks, packaged parcels for soldiers overseas, recruiting men, worked in Red Cross (nurses aka ‘bluebirds’), farmerettes.

Question 4

War Measures Act

Answer 4

• censorship, control and forceful prevention
  of publications, writings, maps, plans,
  photographs, communications and means of
  communication;
• arrest, detention, exclusion and deportation;
• control of the harbours, ports and territorial
  waters of Canada and the movements of
  vessels;
• transportation by land, air or water and
  the control of the transport of persons and
  things;
• trading, exportation, importation,
  production and manufacture;
• taking over without permission and
  disposing of property.

Question 5

What was League of Nations created for?
What was Treaty of Versailles’ conditions for Germany, and what is Article 231?

Answer 5

Allied powers made the ‘Treaty of Versailles’, focusing on peace and prevention of war, and signed it on June 28, 1919.
Principal/famous clause - Article 231 (War guilt clause) where they blamed the entire war on Germany
Germany wasn’t allowed to make the treaty but forced to sign it
League of Nations created; to end the evil of war

Effects on Germany:
France took German territory to build new European countries
German army limited to 100,000 men, no air force or submarine allowed
Germany paid $6.6 billion pounds to Allies, or $35 billion CAD today.