how did the use of movies get U.S. citizens to support worl war 2?
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Propaganda films were used to show how bad the situation were in the other countries and the need for the USA to get involved to help stop the killing and suffering people from the other nations.
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Watch the movie the Patriot and Full Metal Jacket or Glory those are great war movies.  The patriot has your war cries and Glory and FMJ has tons of marching.  Or try Saving Private Ryan
253632
They got they news about the war at the movie theatre and on the radio and in the news paper. You would get a moive, a cartoon or a short film like the three stooge ,and a news reel. Going to the bbc website and is talk about the bbc in world war 2.
1172179
Because America is not interested in democracy. It wants to transfer tax payers money to republican contributing companies, which happen to sell weapons used in WARS
1123691
Americans are willing to look the other way from their government's crimes because they benefit from them.  The US public had cheap oil for decades because of their government's willingness to support brutal regimes.\n\nEditorial columnist and cartoonist Ted Rall had a good idea a few years ago: instead of spending billions of dollars to send American soldier to kill other people, the US government should give thousands of 20-something Americans a plane ticket, a phrase book and a few thousand dollars and make them live overseas for a year.  \n\nWhen Americans see the effects of their policies and their country's reputation in tatters, they'll come home and try to change it.  Americans I have met who lived in various countries for at least a few months (except for the military and the godbots proselytizing their hate literature), all changed their tune and realize how fcuked up their country's policies are.
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Uncle Sam is a fictional charater made during WWII to help recruit troops and bost morale in the States.
623948
It was already decided to fight the war......how long can americans simply sit back supplying weapons to the allies and watch the war....so they decided tat it was time to show their power....also soviet union was rising in power and they had to control the spread of communism....
647998
Except for WW II, the US has never had a long line of young men (and later women) eager to go to war. Washington complained frequently about how hard it was to keep his army together. Of course, it doesn't help that the US, even befoe it's inception, never paid its military very well and welched on promises made to entice people to enlist. And God forbid you were not injured badly enough to die, because the US has never willingly spent enough money on medical care for disabled vets.
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1) The US government, despite its pledge of neutrality, extended a large amount of credit to Great Britain starting in 1940; the British used it to buy everything from guns and ammunition to merchant ships.  US merchant ships carried cargo to England before we were involved in the war (US merchant ships were also supplying Nazi Germany, but on a much smaller scale).  President Roosevelt persuaded Congress to approve the "Lend-Lease" program, in which we gave Britain about 100 old US Navy destroyers in exchange for leases on British territory in the Western Hemisphere.\n\n2) Hitler marched his troops into the Rhine, the Sudetenland, the rest of Czechoslovakia, and Austria over the protests of Britain, France, and the US.  On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, thereby starting WW2 in Europe.  The Poles fought valiantly against Hitler's forces; when they took refuge behind the Vistula River, and it seemed they could hold on until the arrival of the British and French, Stalin entered the war and invaded Poland from the east.  About 2 weeks later it was all over for the Poles.\nStalin also invaded Finland on the flimsy pretext of protecting his northern frontier.  The Finns, although outnumbered and outgunned, held off the Soviets for several months.\nJapan annexed Korea in 1910.  The militarists of Japan also invaded Manchuria (China) in 1933, trying to create what they called the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere."  In their delirious minds, they thought that Asia would thrive if all of it was under their rule.  The rest of Asia disagreed.  Japanese brutality in Manchuria caused the US to enact a trade embargo against Japan.  The Japanese used the embargo as an excuse for the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, thereby precipitating America's entry into WW2.\n\n3) WW2 is thought of as "the good war" because in modern times, the difference between dictatorship and freedom was never so stark.  On one side were the Axis powers, odious dictatorships all, engaging in sneak attacks, breaking every treaty they signed, and trampling on the freedoms of the sovereign nations they invaded (not to mention those of their own people).  Arrayed against them were the Allies, consisting (mostly) of the democratically-run, freedom-loving nations of the world.  Hitler and Tojo thought that "Deutschland über Alles" and "Dai Nippon" would rule the world through their "Übermensch" and "Bushido" warriors.  But both of them underestimated the fury of aroused democracies.  To paraphrase Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of the Pearl Harbor attack: "I fear that all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."  He was right.\nThe Soviets' entry on the Allied side of the war complicated the moral equation a bit.  They had a history of engineering mass repression, purges, and widespread starvation against their own people ever since the Bolshevik triumph in the Russian Revolution of 1918.  Stalin was quite happy to help Hitler carve up eastern Europe when it suited his purposes.  And the Soviets, despite warnings that the Nazis were preparing to invade Russia, supplied the Nazis with much-needed food and fuel right up to the day of the Nazi invasion in 1940.
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It causes the government to spend money on war materials, many of which are made in the USA. The money is debt-financed, which suggests that the positive effect may only be short-lived.
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first, Jane Fonda.. i'll always remember the pic of her sitting with the North Vietnamese AAA crew at their gun.\n  And any actor/actress that opposes war.. Our young men and women are fighting and dying so we cankeep the freedoms that we enjoy today.\n  Sure everyones entitled to their opinion.. BUT in a war .. we all should support our troops..
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A large part of the world wars (both) was the growth of the "fatherland" (der Vaterland), and the spread of the german way of life.  A big idea is "doing it for the people". There is also some of the idea of "they brought the fight to us" (by messing with us/ allies), even though that might not have been true (propaganda is about what you make people believe, after all).  Some of the later propaganda was also aimed at the Americans, trying to convince them to go home, that it wasn't their fight.\n\nYou can focus on the soldiers, but a lot of propaganda stayed at home telling the farmers/workers to keep up/ increase their production so the people/soldiers won't suffer, as well as the anti-propaganda against the other nations.
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"Naturally the common people don't want war, but they can always be brought to their goverments bidding. Simply tell them they are being attacked and chastise the left for being unpatriotic. It works the same in every country." - Herman Goering, Hitlers Reichmarshall at the Nuremberg trials.\nRight wing radio has been a real force for the White House in promoting the separation of Americans. The reason why is simple. If we dislike each other then there is no reason to talk to one another and share ideas. If the citizenry can be kept apart then the manufacture of consent can be accomplished easier. So we call each other names and label each other as Left/Right - Republicans/Democrats - Liberal/Conservative - Red State/ Blue State. All these phrases do nothing but to split AMERICANS apart.\nThe point of public relations slogans like "Support our troops" is that they don't mean anything... That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. Its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something: Do you support our policy? That's the one you're not allowed to talk about. As long as we keep forgeting that we are Americans and not the divisive phrases I listed above we will never learn about our right to open discussion and ideas. Like our founding fathers intended us to be.
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Its not just about money, some just want the status quo to continue, others want to see change happen for safety reasons.  Overall, people are just scared no matter what and war usually makes people think about their own mortality and how precious life can be.  Then there are those that believe in standing up and supporting the country that gave them freedoms that otherwise they wouldn't enjoy elsewhere.  I was anti-war while in high school but I ended up joining the Army and spent the best 5.5 years in my life.  I would do it again if I could.  But I learned also that those that have been to war, don't want it to happen again but they realize that sometimes war is the only answer, talking doesn't always solve it.
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Yes, you can support the military but not the war.  You have to contact your senators and congressmen to bring our youth home.\n\nYou can do this right on the net.  Sent them an email.  This site will find your representatives for you.\n\nhttp://www.congress.org
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Most Americans today are willing to support any cause pushed by the media because they are unfortunately thoughtless, uneducated sheep who never take the trouble (or don't have the concentration span) to spend five minutes and actually learn about an issue before taking a stance. People, freedom is not itself free. It comes with a price, the price of watchfulness. You must guard your freedom. Protect it. If you do not value your freedom and be prepared to defend it, someone will try to take it from you.\n\nIllegal immigrants will destroy your economy just the way you have described, by sending untaxed money out of your country.\n\nMy uncle was a paratrooper in WW2. He's part of the reason we are not living in a dictatorship now.
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First of all the Soviet Union won World War 2, in Europe almost single handed!\n\nBut in the tradition of the Soviet Union public schools in the United States are all run by government.  The vast majority of them only teach a very US centric history with little time on any event leaving most of the students not knowing who was even in most of the wars.\n\nEnter Hollywood!  Here is who teaches most Americans about everything from politics to history.  According to Hollywood we did win World War 2 all by our selves, John Wane landed on the Beaches of Normandy and marched east until Germany Surrendered!\n\nWell now that we have completed the portion where you will agree with me....\n\nThe United States Military does not lose wars, politicians and the American people lose wars.\n\nExample: "I'll start with Vietnam" to use your words.  Vietnam is an example of what I hope will not happen in Iraq.  We secured the country beefed up the government to where they can defend it themselves with our aid and advisers and then we cut all aid and turned our back on them.  At that point the north attacked them again and they fell only because the American people lost the will to fight / lost the will to support a country fighting a war they lost the will to fight a few years ago.\n\nIraq and Afghanistan are outstanding examples of how to fight and win wars and I am 100% behind both of them.  We are winning both of them but you wouldn't know that by watching CNN.