Key Events Surrounding Propaganda WWII
- 1930-1941 USSR uses propaganda as a tool of the state.
- March 13, 1933 Creation of Reich Ministry for Propaganda under Joseph Goebbles
- April 1, 1933 Antisemitism speech by Joseph Goebbels approving antisemitic propaganda
- September 1934 Triumph of the Will (Propaganda Film)
- August 1, 1936 Berlin Olympics used as a Nazi propaganda machine
- January - May 1940 Third Reich intensified propaganda radio broadcasts.
- 1941 The USSR Anti-German radio / film / publications are intensified
- 1941 WWII newsreels and Disney cartoons used as propaganda tools
- 1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the office of war information
- February 1942 "Voice of America" begins broadcasting news programs
- February 1942 - 1943 US radio propaganda intensified
- 1944 USSR Liberation propaganda campaign
- 1945 The Allied Control Council systematically purges all Nazism from Germany