Committee on Public Information
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How/Why
- The purpose of this committee was to mobilize people's minds for war (both in America and abroad) - Tried to get the entire U.S. public to support U.S. involvement in WWI - It regularly distributed pro-war propaganda and sent out an army of "four-minute men" to rally crowds
Who/What
- Wilson created this, headed by George Creel - Represented U.S. as beacon of freedom, juxtaposed with tyranny of Germany - Targeted war protestors, represented Germans as animals
When
April 1917
Where
United States
