OK, I give up. Is it a trick question???
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I remember Albert Jay Nock quoting a credible source who related to him, matter-of-factly, that the press could drum up war fever in America in a matter of hours. I'm not sure when -- maybe the 1930s or early 40s? Could have been referring to World War I, I imagine. Nock died in 1945, so at least we know this was no later than WW II.
It was ever thus. You can find similar stories in the Old Testament :-) Today the Mullahs stir war fever in their mosques and you watch surplus young men, faces contorted with hate, chanting death slogans and waving guns. It is SO easy to turn them into would-be martyrs.