During World War 2 from 1938-1945 each country had its own wartime propaganda posters. Propaganda posters are informational ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. All of of these Propaganda posters used the fear of the population to get them to act or believe the way someone else wants. Since I cannot read most other languages I can only understand American and British posters. In America these posters were used for a wide variety of topics. Some posters were designed to make you enlist yourself into the army, or to save materials during wartime. However all these posters used the same techniques. Most used over exaggerated depictions of Japanese soldiers that took the features commonly known for to make them look inhuman or monstrous. By using the fear of a Japanese controlled America they were able to convince most Americans of the importance of their message. As well as using posters for fear some were used for inspiration. Iconic posters such as the women factory worker saying, "we can do it" were ones to get people involved with the wartime effort. Along with the American “We can do it”, we have the British’s "women of Britain come to the factories". Another common propaganda poster theme was to get Americans to buy war bonds so people would keep paying to fight the good fight. These posters were created in fear, patriotism, and etc. The Final theme that was present during my research was the sex appeal. Beautiful women sprawled across war machinery and in flirtatious conversation with soldiers were designed to appeal to young men to enlist for the war. So that is what people did these effective posters captured the public and convinced them to follow these instructions to insure the victory over the malicious powers of the axis powers and there fight for world dominance.
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