9.2 Propaganda quiz based on pages 20-12

Which of the following was not one of the ways that Propaganda messages would be spread mentioned on pages 20 and 21 of Hetherton?

• Posters

• Newspapers

• Postcards

• Moving Pictures (Movies)

• Advertisments

What were the reasons for British Propaganda according to pages 20 and 21 of Hetherton?

• To Portray Russia as Evil

• To showcase Germany's pride

• Recruit Soldiers

• To Justify the War

• To show the casualties and horror of war

Why did recruitment poster become more important in Britian for the war between 1914 and the start of 1916?

• The war escalated (got bigger and bigger)

• Conscription began in 1915

• The was went on longer than expected

• There were many casualties

• Soldiers had to sign up

Which what censored (not allowed to be shown) at the beginning of the war in British Newspapers?

• soldiers letters

• lists of the people who had died during the war

• optimistic stories about the war

• pictures of dead British soldiers

Why might the British government want to check the letters that soldiers were sending back their families and sometime censor some of the contents?

• national security - they did not want information about the war e.g. strategy being leaked to spies

• they were concerned that the letters would encourage other citizens to want to join the war

• it could be bad for moral if they told their families about how terrible the war was and life in the trenches

• the government wanted to discourage soldiers form writing letters as it was a distraction form the fighting

How was the war often portrayed on the postcards that the soldiers would be given to send back to their families?

• jovial (positive)

• horrific (negative)