Age of TOTAL WARAn era of devastation that produced

long term consequences

Prof. Ernesto Correa – Colegio Seminario – History

American cartoonist viewpoints

Chicago Defender – 16 June 1945 Dr Seuss – NYC – PM magazine

European analysisIn this Italian cartoon,

German soldiers are shown fixing up a devastated Belgian city and re-paving the shell-pocked roads with skulls of their Belgian victims.

Alleged German atrocities against the civilian population of Belgium were fertile ground for Allied war propaganda. On the other hand, German war propaganda blamed Belgium and Britain for the war.

Which is the role of propaganda? Are cartoons part of it?

TechnologyFirst World War Second World War

HMS – Dreadnought - 1906 Fat Man bomb – Nagasaki - 1945

The numbers

First World War• Casualties: between 10 to

31 million people according to estimations.

Second World War• Casualties: between 60 to

80 million according to estimations.