What Was the Purpose of the Committee on Public Information

question 28

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of the Committee on Public Information?

• A) to combat the growing presence of communism in the United States following the end of the Great War and to make it less likely to emerge in other countries
• B) to form a prewar public information network, which was discontinued after the United States entered the war due to funding problems
• C) to provide a nonpartisan and independent source for Americans to find information about the causes of the war and the nations involved in the fight
• D) to pursue propaganda and shape public perceptions about the war to generate support for the American war effort
• E) to organize dissent against American involvement in the war by highlighting the atrocities committed by both sides before 1917

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