Propaganda
Propaganda had a large impact on World War 1 for many reasons. For one, propaganda posters like this one, were used to try and get young men to become drafted in the army. Many of these posters had deeper meaning to them, and would use nicknames for countries, foods from countries, or would display the opposing country badly. These propaganda posters were used to influence the people to do something to help the soldiers fighting in the war. |
The Great Slaughter
In early 1916, the British army had over 1 million soldiers in Belgium and France. Both sides tried to get through "no mans land" on the battlefield, in order to assure a possible victory. Instead, by the end of the year, both sides lost nearly one million men. This artifact is a gun that would have been used to keep the opposing country out and away from their trenches. An article on the Great Slaughter could only describe this event as a "massacre". |
Artificial Faces
During World War 1, there were thousands of injuries such as lost legs and arms, which could have been fixed with a prostatic leg or arm. But uncommon to most is artificial faces. These faces and specific facial parts were created to give almost to full motion to the injured soldier. During the war, over 2,000 soldiers got artificial face implants, because of being shot in the face or because of harmful gasses that caused their skin to deform. This was basically an early form of plastic surgery. |