History & English project Sec 2E 2008

This is a primary source – eyewitness account from a young boy (16 year old) who lived through the war period.

Read and select the relevant parts which describes the type of propaganda used by both sides.  You could extract these for your class presentation as ONE of the sources for the class to discuss and answer questions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/34/a4405934.shtml 

Although you have done your research well, I find that there is very LITTLE discussion and analysis of what these propaganda sources tell you about HOW japanese used propaganda in WW2

You can’t just COPY and PASTE – apply the skills you learned in source-based questions like questioning bias and reliability, inferring the purpose of the propaganda and the message it was intended to convey

You also need to make sure you post the references for your sources of information – like the website, author of website , title of book, published by, year of publication author of book etc

For the Forst siloso trip – the focus will be MORE ON BRITISH propaganda  during the war especially propaganda abt Singapore as invincible and a fortress:

“The popular image of Singapore as an impregnable fortress was due largely to desperate British propaganda in the last years of the 1930s” from Dept of Defence , 2004, Australia

What was this propaganda about? In what way did the British make the people in Singapore believe that they were well-protected and had nothing to fear?  How did they convince people of this?

There are a number of useful resources at the PW website:

- http://ourstory.asia1.com.sg/war/war.html

Also something to tell you abt the British Defence Plans – and why they think Singapore was an impregnable fortress

Interview with a historian ( Australian) about the propaganda of Singapore as an impregnable fortress 

( study the British propaganda cartoon from Singapore newspaper, The Malaya Tribune, on Dec 3, 1941.) – shows u how the British tried to convince the people that they have nothing to worry about and that the British will win the war.

- http://ourstory.asia1.com.sg/war/headline/wendau.html and http://ourstory.asia1.com.sg/war/headline/wbahau.html

( shows you how the Japanese “tried to portray themselves as liberators of the local people. They dished out propaganda articles in the Japanese-controlled newspaper, The Syonan Shimbun.)

Look at these Japanese Propaganda postcards – what was the purpose and message?

-  Did u check out the media resources here - my students created these esp videos – there are those from Fort Siloso

Added a lot more LINKS here, especially for propaganda – PW wiki