sep 8, 1917 - Committee on Public Information

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Woodrow Wilson creates Committee on Public Information, consisting of Secretaries of State, the Army, and the Navy. The committee produced and implemented propaganda in order to gain and maintain domestic support for the Great War.

Photograph shows cover for patriotic sheet music written in 1917


Source:
Wikipedia, "Propaganda in World War I"
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_in_World_War_I)

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