Questions and Topics We Can Help You To Answer:
Paper Instructions:

FORMATTING REQUIREMENTS
NO COVER PAGES (points deduction)
Name, Date and Student ID in header (NO headings that take up half a page: also points deduction)
Your paper must be minimum 900 words, recommended length 1200 words
Times 12 pt font DOUBLE SPACED 1" margins
approx. 3-4 pages NOT including bibliography
Chicago-style FOOTNOTE CITATIONS throughout paper 
Chicago-style Bibliography on separate page, uploaded as one document. 

PROMPT
How effective were European nation-states in using propaganda to alter popular opinion during World War I?

As Europe descended into the period of the Great War, later titled World War I (1914-1918), national governments began to employ propaganda as a tool to motivate entire populations in favor of war. 

To further complicate your analysis of the above prompt, some further questions below to consider as you formulate a thesis:

What ideologies that we have studied so far did European states lean upon to change public perceptions of their supposed enemies and the war? Ultimately, think about if World War I was perhaps prolonged because of propaganda or if government propaganda had little to no bearing on the duration or course the war as one of the many means to measure "effectiveness."

FORMULATING A THESIS
The thesis, or argument of your paper should be a detailed and specific answer to the above question, rooted in a close analysis of the primary sources and a clear explanation of the historical context drawn from the assigned secondary source readings. It needs to be at least one sentence or two sentences long, as the last sentence of your introduction.

HISTORY PAPER ORGANIZATION
Your paper must include an introduction, several distinct body paragraphs, and a conclusion.

Your introduction should not begin with an overly broad, general statement, but instead should introduce the specific time, place, and topic you are writing about. Do not assume that your reader knows anything about the history you are describing. Your introduction provides necessary context for the reader that informs your paper of how the issue that you will discuss in your thesis came to be. Your introduction must include

a) historical context that provides the causes and context for the thesis
b) a thesis statement that is the last sentence or sentences of your introduction that answers the prompt in way that does not repeat the prompt or is obvious, and
c) provides an overview of how the remainder of your paper will be organized (a “road-map” for your reader). 
Your body paragraphs, a minimum of at least two, should each be organized around a main idea or focal point of evidence, and should each offer evidentiary analysis and contextualization to support your thesis. This is where you will be citing primary and secondary sources and including footnotes for the reader, properly sourcing your evidence. 

Your conclusion should summarize your arguments first, then it provides space to add to your paper. Start your conclusion by restating your thesis, and summarizing the main points made in your body paragraphs. 

SOURCES - YOU MAY ONLY CITE SOURCES LISTED BELOW
3 total sources
You are to select 2 pieces of visual propaganda from the Library of Congress' World War I Posters Collection (Links to an external site.). This is an online database of digitized posters relating exclusively to World War I. I strongly encourage you familiarize yourself with this website well before you tackle this paper

The link for the visual propaganda: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/wwipos/background.html

The third cite comes from the book, A Peoples History of Modern Europe that HAS TO BE INCLUDED in the paper

CITATIONS - FOOTNOTES
This paper must include several footnotes and a separate bibliography on a new page to receive any points on the rubric for proper citation
-The Chicago style of citing we use requires footnotes (at the bottom, or the "foot" of the page) rather than in-text or parenthetical citations.