Go to page 6 of your Sources and Skills Book for an evidence task.
COLLABORATE: Work together in small groups to see if you can think of other ways that any of the sources on pages 6–7 can be useful. How might they be limiting or problematic?
Propaganda posters
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Study these two propaganda posters. For each, ask yourself: what period of history is it from? Why was it made and who made it?
(Source A) (Source B)
British World War II propaganda poster
1. What type of source are A and B? 2. What does Source A encourage people to do? Why do you think Britain wanted people to do this? 3. What does Source B encourage people to do? Why do you think Germany made this poster? 4. What problems could a historian encounter when using propaganda posters as a source? 5. What are the benefi ts to historians of using propaganda posters as a source? 6. Name other ways propaganda could be used, other than in posters.
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German World War II propaganda poster: ‘Hard times; hard duties; hard hearts’
