Introduction
	The year is 1914 and there is news of the first world war known as World War I or the Great War. You have read that the Germans have assasinated an important heir in Austria. How did you find this out? Newspapers and posters of course! There were no televisions or radios in 1914-1919 which was the time period of World War I. Some of the only ways of communication were through newspapers, posters, pictures, and artwork. The most known way of communicating an idea or event was through posters. It was the most convenient, to-the-point way that the public hung on to get information. It was the way that the public trusted events to be advertised. It was a way of getting many ideas across through a picture and few words. It was up to the public to completely get the whole idea.  The government approved most of the posters and had control of what the public saw. In a way they would be considered the newscasters of that era.         As you progress through the year you realize that it really is a world war and that your country is going to support it. The posters are becoming different, asking  people to buy Liberty Bonds, in some areas, to support everyone going to war. There are also recruitment posters asking you to join the army or navy and fight. There are posters with an important leader asking you to fight, buy liberty bonds, or recruit to join the army. You see posters advertising how bad the Germans are and they are trying to get you to rally into fighting the war. This is because the government needs all the support and money it can get right now as it enters the war.        It's been a couple years into the Great War and now you are seeing art being exhibited from artists at the front lines, the Western Front, and the trenches. You see artwork of soldiers blinded by mustard gas that the Germans used. You see wounded soldiers, soldiers fighting each other, soldiers using guns, bombs exploding, places burning, and destroyed buildings. You also see pictures of soldiers dying in trenches or on the Western Front. This is what is happening in the war is what you think. You think this because obviously it is what the artist saw. Now you have had a clear picture of World War I. Some words that would probably come to mind are fighting, dying, explosions, and the need to fight. Sometimes the pictures were completly depicting what was going on during World War I. Other times there were pictures that were not exhibited to the public so they could only have the vision that the Germans were the enemy. They posted that fighting was good so that there wouldn't be any rogue groups of people sparking the idea that supporting the war was a bad thing to fight and support.        You see more posters depicting how the Germans have become a big threat because they have done "evil" things to the soldiers on the front lines and taken over areas overseas that could be a threat. A lot of the posters are propaganda and others are true. These words can describe what most of the posters and artwork communicated during World War I.
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			Artists and Propaganda Leaders of World War I
			Impacting Posters of World War I
			Impact of the Artwork in World War I
			Background Information on World War I
			Conclusion
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			Annonated Bibliography