They used propaganda posters in the war to get their people to believe in whatever morals the government felt was right. Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed towards influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position by presenting only one side of the argument. Propaganda is usually repeated and dispersed over a wide variety of media in order to create the chosen result in audience attitudes.
As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda, in its most basic sense, present information primarily to influence an audience. While the term propaganda had acquired a strongly negative connotation by association with its most manipulative and jingoistic examples e.g Nazi propaganda used to justify the Holocaust. Propaganda in its original sense was neutral, and could refer to uses that were generally benign or innocuous, such as public health recommendations signs encouraging citizens to participate in a census or election, or messages encouraging persons to crimes to law enforcement, among others.
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