Hate Crimes
Once Kaiser came into power and the people of the United States and United Kingdom saw how Germany was changing and its new fundamentals, it would not go down well for those looking for freedom.
Citizens, police officers, elected officials and others were all unhappy the influx of German immigrants to America. Many people took it upon themselves to change this by doing many hateful things towards this new peoples. From falsely accusing and/or framing of crimes to physically attacking and killing the Germans were slowly getting beaten down by the citizens of the US. Though most of this happened in the South, the North also took a part in the hate.
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propaganda
Propaganda was fuel for the fire of hate against German-Americans, from biased war bond posters, to posters just offensive to all Germans, showing the differences of the "American Dream" style average working man to an evil looking, cruel German murderer, Propaganda was not helping the already terrible situation.
Propaganda is a method of advertisement, in this case it was against the enemy of the country it is being distributed in. In the US and Britain the propaganda was against Germany and offensive to German immigrants, which effected the average consumer by making them by war bonds to support their country, from their it rubbed off onto their children, friends, and family, soon everyone was against the German enemies.