Propaganda In Modern Society

As we see time and again the rise and fall of Dictators ,Tyrants, leaders, and governments. From as early as the 1600s to modern day society we have seen how political leaders use various tactics in order to achieve their political agendas. They use different types of tactics such as media, rallies, speeches to send false messages to their people to persuade the people to follow them. This is called propaganda which is spreading the ideas based on biased or misleading nature to help promote or publicizes a particular institution or particular cause. We have seen different leaders use different forms of propaganda such as Nazi 's, the Soviets, North Korea, 1990s Yugoslavia, and many more regimes. Propaganda isn 't just used by tyrants, communist …show more content…
Yugoslavia was composed of 6 different Republics (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia) and 7 different ethnic groups( Bosniaks, Croats, Slovenes, Serbs, Montenegrins, Macedonians, Albanians) which were apart of Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1991. Yugoslavia was held together and was under the rule of a communist leader named Josip Broz Tito. From 1945 until his death in 1980 he was able to run the country under peace and great economic prosperity. He was able to keep all the ethnic groups at peace who had always had bad blood between each other. Once Marshall Tito died the country remained at peace for another 11 years, with adapting the system of a rotating presidency. In 1991 the Republics of Slovenia, and Croatia declared Independence from Yugoslavia because they felt the federal government was slowly being dominated by the …show more content…
Caroline Page states in her book "U.S. Official Propaganda During the Vietnam War" some of the tactics the United States were beginning to use in order to gain support from the people. The first reason was that the U.S had stage the war as a possible national security threat, even though the countries were incredibly distant from one another. Another objective that the United States needed to present was clear explanation on why we are supporting South Vietnam even though their ideas contradict the U.S ideology. The last thing mentions in her book is gaining trust from the public. The Vietnam issue was kept under very high secrecy that the people weren 't really aware of what the situation and solutions were for it. In order to move forward the government needed the trust of the