Baghdad Pact map poster FI-M-1, 1958 US poster: A colour map of the Middle East and South Asia headed 'Muslim member nations

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 Bandwagon

Date: February 16, 1958
Period: Cold War
Made by: Forces Information Section, ISPR Directorate (sheet FI-M-1); distributed via U.S. Information Agency, Asia/Latin America/Middle East series
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: State
Regime: Eisenhower Administration
Leader: Dwight D. Eisenhower
Audience: Foreign public
Purpose: Persuade or win support
Themes: War and the military, Security and surveillance
Event: Cold War
Source: Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
Source: U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
Rights: Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, February 16, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948821, 306-PPB-36).

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.