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title: Baghdad Pact map poster FI-M-1 (English, Karachi)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/baghdad-pact-map-fi-m-1-english-karachi-1958/
description: A colour map of the Middle East and South Asia headed 'Muslim member nations of the Baghdad Pact'. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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# Baghdad Pact map poster FI-M-1 (English, Karachi)

A colour map of the Middle East and South Asia headed 'Muslim member nations of the Baghdad Pact'. Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan (both wings) are shaded dark green, the USSR and China red, and other states yellow. The slogan reads 'United with UK & USA' and 'For peace, security, economic development, social advancement. Against aggression, subversion'. The tell is bandwagon, joining the shaded states to two great powers, with glittering-generalities in the printed aims.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Bandwagon](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/bandwagon/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
MUSLIM MEMBER NATIONS OF THE BAGHDAD PACT

UNITED
WITH UK & USA

FOR PEACE, SECURITY, ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL ADVANCEMENT
AGAINST AGGRESSION
SUBVERSION

FI-M-1
FORCES INFORMATION SECTION
I S P R DIRECTORATE

SCALE: 138 MILES TO AN INCH, APPROX.

[Map labels: USSR, CHINA, TURKEY, IRAQ, IRAN, PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, INDIA, NEPAL, KASHMIR, SYRIA, LEBANON, ISRAEL, JORDAN, EGYPT, LIBYA, SUDAN, ETHIOPIA, YEMEN, SAUDI ARABIA, KUWAIT, BAHRAIN IS, TRUCIAL SH & QATAR, MASQAT, OMAN, GREECE, BLACK SEA, CASPIAN SEA, MEDITERRANEAN SEA, RED SEA, PERSIAN GULF, ARABIAN SEA, BAY OF BENGAL, JUNAGADH & MANAVEDAR; cities Ankara, Athens, Baghdad, Tehran, Kabul, Delhi, Karachi, Dacca, Cairo, Damascus, Amman, Riyadh, Khartoum]
```

Small place-name labels are listed rather than reproduced in position.

[← Baghdad Pact flags poster FI-M-2 (English and Arabic, Karachi)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/baghdad-pact-flags-fi-m-2-karachi-1958/) [But I'm Keeping this for the G.O.P. →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/berryman-but-im-keeping-this-for-the-gop-1958/)

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