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May 20, 2009


 * __Remix America Timeline Video Assignment__**

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March 26, 2009



The United States used many types of propaganda during the Cold War. They would often use posters, television, and radio programming to influence citizens, themselves, and third world nations. During the cold war the United States often would use testimonial and bandwagon propaganda. Testimonial propaganda would use a famous person to persuade a person. The other common type of propaganda was bandwagon which tries to persuade everyone to join and do the same thing. A common poster used would be of Uncle Sam trying to get people to join and support the army and war. The poster above uses both testimonial and bandwagon propaganda. It uses Uncle Sam as a famous face and uses him him to try to get the people at the time to join the army and do more to support the war.

The United States were not the only ones to use propaganda during the war. The soviets also used propaganda to sell a product and to get the support of their citizens. Like the United States the soviets also use testimonial propaganda. This advertisment shows uncle sam pushing nuclear bombs and the speaker is saying, “Soviet Union offers to stop nuclear weapon tests”. The Soviet Union used someone famous like Uncle Sam but they protray him in a bad way where as the United States used Uncle Sam in a positive way to get people to support the United States. Both the United States and the Soviet Union use testamonial propaganda along with the same person but they protrayed this person in two very different ways to get across two very different ideas.

Today you can find propaganda almost everywhere you look. Propaganda is used in commercials, posters, newspapers, on the radio, and they can even been found in many speeches. The most used type of propaganda today is testimonial. Nearly every major product or company has a celebrity or a well known person to sell their product. Gatorade for example uses many celebrities from Tiger Woods to Kevin Garnett to lil Wayne to the jabbawockeez. Two other common type of propaganda are bandwagon and repition. Many companies repeat commercials so that the consumer can get use to the product. They may also try to persuade people to buy and use the same products as the celebrities which is bandwagon. This picture is a great example of propaganda that can be found today.