Role Of Propaganda In World War II

Propaganda is used to promote or demote a certain view or idea from a chiefly biased standpoint. In World War II, propaganda was used frequently with purposes varying from army recruitment to war production. The poster “Women: There 's work to be done and a war to be won ... Now! See your U.S. Employment Service” portrays cartoon women from all different war jobs building the word “Women.” This poster connects to the Home Front in three main ways: first, it represents the utilization of propaganda posters for war production, second it displays how key events in the war required an increased workforce, and finally the poster exhibits new opportunities for women. The U.S Employment Service’s War Manpower Commission created and commissioned this propaganda poster. This service created other propaganda posters during the war such as: Get the Jap and get it over!, Put your muscle on a war basis!: sign up for a farm job, United we win, and Women in the war : we can 't win without them. A uniting theme between all propaganda posters from the U.S Employment Service War Manpower Commission was that they each focused on the significance of production and war jobs urging the American population to join the workforce. On April 18, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established …show more content…
This poster was created in 1944. One of the war’s most significant events was taking place during this time: D-Day. On June 6, 1944, D-Day had begun with the landing of around 156,000 Ally forces along five beaches in the Normandy region upon the coast of France. In late August 1944, the Allies had succeeded in liberating all of northern France. The strongest of these blows to the Axis powers was the liberation of Paris and the removal of Germans from Northwestern France. These Normandy landings are frequently labeled as “the beginning of the end of war in