WW1 Sources Question: War Recruitment Propaganda.

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WW1 Sources Question: War Recruitment Propaganda

The Sources

The Sources Consist of Poster's Saying/Showing:

* Source A: Go! It's your duty lad

* Source B: Daddy, what did you do in the great war?

* Source C: The Kaiser, personified as a Gorilla, crawling over a city with a woman in his had.

* Source D:An American Recruitment Poster

* Source E: A Soldier's Post-Card (Controlled)

* Source F:A Painting of soldiers chasing a ball across the battlefield

* Source G: A Poem about the Somme

* Source H: A First Hand Account of the Somme

* Sources H&J: Graphic,Uncensored Accounts of the Somme1)

I believe sources A and B were published before 1916 and Source C after 1916. Sources A and B both concentrate on convincing men to sign up to the armed forces and since conscription was not introduced until 1916 these posters must have been published before 1916. Source C is an American poster; America did not join until 1917, therefore Source C must have been published after 1916.2)The posters are all similar in on fundamental way, they all concentrate on convincing young men to