This poster dates back to World War II. The Japanese on December 7, 1941 flew their planes knowing there would be no return due to the lack of fuel, bombed and ”kamikaze" meaning made their planes into bomb essentially flying them into the ships at the harbor. This poster shows the Americans as "Uncle Sam" on the bottom of the photo with his first in the air. This would give the American people hope, knowing that the statement below him, "our bullets will do it" saying let's go to war. As we see above him are the words essentially, let's go to war. The art work in this photo is grabbing your attention by having the bold defined body of "Uncle Sam" looking up at the "kamikaze" planes knowing that America will be getting even. Propaganda such like this got everyone in America to back a common cause. These poster help sway generations at a time, being able to target separate demographics with different photos and words displaying the similar message. In today society the government has changed it views on how to display that propaganda. Posters won't even keep anyone’s attention for more than a second or two, not even enough time to read and understand what is going on. Now the military and government have these awesome commercials that get people hooked on the subjects. Though the artist and people in this era I feel were a lot more creative coming up with these witty posters and usually there was very funny political cartoons that associated themselves, sometimes being the same artist.
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