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In the spring and summer of 1941, the Second World War began to spiral into a truly global conflict. In 1940, the World War was in reality a combination of several regional conflicts around the globe and couldn't truly be classified as a global war. In Europe, Hitler's Germany had overrun most of the continent and stood along the Soviet Border in an anxious truce with Stalin's Soviet Union. In Asia, the Japanese Empire had gained control over much of the eastern seaboard including vital points such as Shanghai, Hong Kong and the Korean Peninsula. Finally, in Africa, the Axis powers had invaded Egypt and were beginning to spread along the Mediterranean seaboard. In 1941, however, the major world powers that had been notably absent from much military conflict, the United States and the Soviet Union, would enter and merge these regional conflicts into the first truly global war. On May 8th 1941, the escalation of war was very apparent in the media. The newspapers accounted the merging of conflicts that soon came to a decisive point of decision, which was whether or not the United States would join the Allied forces. As well as supplying information about the war to many citizens, the media was an important weapon in itself. The swa
In both strips Hitler is seen as a bumbling thief, a propaganda tactic used to make the enemy look foolish to readers. The comic strips of World War Two were very similar to the political cartoons found in contemporary media sources. Through the use of humour, the media could dictate viewer's conceptions of political leaders or groups, and thus undermine that leader's credibility. Stimson's speech evoked a much different response from German and Italian papers, since both countries were wary of American intervention in the war. The Associated Press ran the headline "Nazis Assert Stimson Plea is War Threat" in which they outline the Nazi reaction. Hitler apparently dismissed Stimson's speech as "the product of 'mental disturbance'" and the German press, strictly a propaganda distributor, said that Stimson hadn't "the slightest idea about real happenings in Europe". In Italy, The Stefani, the official Italian news agency corroborated the Nazi view and likewise dismissed Stimson's speech as insignificant. The New York Times claims that The Stefani didn't even annotate the speech and "instead of giving readers a fair summary of Mr. Stimson's address, ridicule[d] it in a half-column of polemics." Clearly both opposing media views construe and manipulate one story into two very different accounts, neither of which are very accurate. Japan by this time had already signed a pact with Germany and Italy, yet remained a U.S. trading partner, so Stimson's speech also held some significance with them. The Washington Post ran the headline "Expected U.S. Moves Make Japan Uneasy". However the article contained no primary Japanese sources except rumours of "increasing uneasiness over their relations with the United States". The interesting point about the Japanese article however is not its' contents, but its placement; on the seventh page. Judging from American media sources and their lack of Japanese coverage, Americans believed there was no present or even imminent danger from the Japanese Empire, perhaps a sign of American overconfidence judging from what occurred at Pearl Harbor eight months later. This is an understandable use of propaganda since citizen and military morale alike couldn't possibly benefit from seeing the death and destruction that was actually taking place, so instead, soldiers are viewed as fearless, victorious and heroic. However, whenever photos of the enemy are shown, soldiers ar
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