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Propeganda on the home front during WWI  

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PROPAGANDA ON THE HOME FRONT DURING WWI Propaganda is using limited or biased information for a specific purpose. The Government used this during world war one to great effect in many areas - to keep up morale, encourage support for the war effort, recruit soldiers and to create hatred and suspicion of the enemy. Newspapers Newspapers were the main source of information to the public, and so were crucial in the war effort. If the newspapers didn't print the truth, however, people could not accurately tell what was going on in the war. Unfortunately, printing what was really going on would lower morale at home, discourage men from joining up and possibly incite mutiny and rebellion both at home and in the armed forces. At the start of the war, the papers were not allowed on the front line so they could not report on the terrible conditions the soldiers had to live...

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