“It was a fight for the minds of men, for the 'conquest of their conviction' ... We did not call it propaganda, for that word, in German hands, had come to be associated with deceit and corruption. Our effort was a plain publicity proposition, a vast enterprise in salesmanship, the world's greatest adventure in advertising.”
— George Creel, Chairman of the Committee on Public Information, 1920
The activities described in the excerpt most directly reflected which of the following home front goals during World War I?
- Mobilizing public opinion and securing popular support for the war effortCevap
- BEnding the Great Depression through government-sponsored employment programs
- CPromoting isolationist foreign policies to prevent future international conflicts
- DRegulating corporate monopolies to restore free market competition
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Mobilizing public opinion and securing popular support for the war effort
The correct answer is correct because the Committee on Public Information (CPI), led by George Creel, was established during World War I to sway public opinion in favor of the US war effort and build domestic consensus through speeches, print media, and films.
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Wartime Mobilization of Public Opinion
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