Propaganda Maps

Propaganda maps are used to target a specific audience and influence their beliefs and emotions usually for political purposes. The message can be logical, but is often laced with rhetoric to arouse emotion or prejudice in the targeted audience. The Nazi’s created many propaganda maps to further their goal of eliminating Jews from their country and the world. This map is a Japanese propaganda caricature map from around 1941, depicting a U.S. blockade of Japan from the Philippines.