Propaganda in Foreign Policy
Propaganda is a major political tool used by the United States, especially in its foreign policy. Politics on a global scale can be defined as the competition, which occurs among nations, due to the scarcity of the world's resources. The political agenda of a nation's foreign policy governs which resources for which it will compete through various political means. Propaganda, as a tool to advance one's political agenda, is the filtering and manipulation of information to guide a populace's decision making ability towards the propogandizer's proposed end. The people are not exposed to all the information and therefore are not choosing one or the other but between one and one. If a political tool is any means used to gain leverage in a competition, then propaganda as a political tool would create an arena in which a person could only be in support of the propogandizer's agenda because they are unaware of the political agenda of the competitor. Immediately after WWII ended, Germany became a potential global resource politically and economically for the allied forces of Germany's occupation, especially the United States and the United Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR). For the United States, Ge
And clearly German media personnel would not seek to foster "collective guilt. rmany presented as a potential political ally in Europe as well as a now desperate market for a variety of products, "but victory would mean little if political and economic conditions which had spawned the totalitarian of the 1930s remained in existence" (Gaddis 2). " Moreover, it contained "positive changes in media objectives and content pointing toward the reconstruction of German culture and society by Germans" because it was believed that on order for Germany to have a democratic society the German people were going to have to work for it themselves (Hartenian Controlling. (as quoted from April 20, 1945 OWI memo, Hartenian Controlling. [because] the rejection of Nazism was conceived as the first step in the reconstitution of Germany (Hartenian 37).
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