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BIG HISTORY PROJECT / LESSON 9.

6 ACTIVITY STUDENT MATERIALS


PROPAGANDA AND WORLD WAR II
Directions: In this activity, you’re going to examine and analyze propaganda posters from WW II. Specifically, you’re going to try to interpret the messages that
different governments were trying to convey with the posters. Pick two posters and answer the questions on the following two pages.

“Man the Guns, Join the Navy,” “Petrograda Ne Otdadim” (We “Na Zapad!” (To the West!), by Viktor “Allons-y … Canadiens” (Let’s Go, “Seeing it Through,” by E. H.
by McClelland Barclay. Produced will not give up Petrograd!) Semenovich Ivanov. Originally published: Canadians) by Henri Eveleigh, issued under Kennington, a British portrait
for the Navy Recruiting Bureau, Artist and date unknown. Gos. izd-vo “lskusstvo,” Moskva, 1943. the authority of the Honorable J. T. Thorson, artist. Published by London
NARA Still Picture Branch. Minister of National War Services. Passenger Transport Board.

“Attack … on all Fronts,” Created “Askari wetu washinda wajapani” “We Can Do It!” by J. Howard Miller. “Frauen Warte” (Women’s Viewpoint) “Weapons for the front … From
by Hubert Rogers. This poster (Our soldiers beat the Japanese). by Produced by Westinghouse for the War Artist unknown Poster based on the the Soviet women” Date and
was published by the Wartime Roland Davies. Production Coordinating Committee, NARA April 1, 1940 issue of the Frauen Warte, artist unknown.
Information Board, Canada. Still Picture Branch. the Nazi Party’s women’s magazine.
BIG HISTORY PROJECT / LESSON 9.6 ACTIVITY STUDENT MATERIALS
PROPAGANDA AND WORLD WAR II Name: Date:

Poster Title: Seeing it Through

1. What government released the poster?

The British Government

2. What do you think the poster is trying to convey, and why?


I think it's trying to convey that people who join the war efforts are stoic and brave like the women on the poster.

3. What about the poster makes you think this? (Consider the images, words, and colors.)
The women looks very serious and prepared while getting her picture taken

4. What does this poster tell you about that country at the time?

The picture tells me that the country valued bravery very much

5. How is this poster similar to or different from the other poster that you analyzed?
The poster is much more subtle than the other posters of its time
BIG HISTORY PROJECT / LESSON 9.6 ACTIVITY STUDENT MATERIALS
PROPAGANDA AND WORLD WAR II Name: Date:

Poster Title: Attack on all Fronts

1. What government released the poster?


The Canadian Government

2. What do you think the poster is trying to convey, and why?


The poster is trying to convey that everyone can and should help during the war

3. What about the poster makes you think this? (Consider the images, words, and colors.)

The fact that many different people with different professions on featured

4. What does this poster tell you about that country at the time?

That Canadians thought anyone and everyone should help

5. How is this poster similar to or different from the other poster that you analyzed?
This poster is very straight and to the point with the message its sending

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