Sachplaket and World War I

6. WWI Causes
1. Mutual Defense Alliances
1. Russia and Serbia
2. Germany and Austria Hungary
3. France and Russia
4. Britain France and Belgium
5. Japan and Britain
2. Imperialism
3. Militarism (arms race)
4. Nationalism
5. Immediate Cause: Assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand

7. WWI Posters
1. Governments felt realistic styles had more appeal
2. Foreign posters designed by printers, cut the designers out
3. England, PRC, wrote the posters after images were made
4. US hired illustrators to design, illustrate and write their posters

8. WWI Poster Themes
1.Direct Appeal
2.Manipulation
1.War as great adventure
2.Autocracy
3.Moral and Emasculating

9. Direct Approach

14. War as the Great Adventure

17. Moral or Emasculating

24. Autocracy and Guilt