Help your OPA fight inflation
Anti-inflation poster: a dark field with falling dollar signs and a stepped chain of captions, 'Prices go up, then people buy less, business slumps, people lose jobs', above a green-tinted man seated on a bench with a folded newspaper. The tell is the chain: a sequence of consequences ending in unemployment, shown as a lone figure, a fear-appeal, with 'Help your OPA fight inflation' as the ask.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1946
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Office of Price Administration
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Home front
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Office of Price Administration. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-962 (NAID 514468).
Text on the object
INFLATION PRICES GO UP THEN PEOPLE BUY LESS BUSINESS SLUMPS PEOPLE LOSE JOBS HELP YOUR OPA FIGHT INFLATION [imprint:] U. S. OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION, WASHINGTON 25, D. C. INF-P2369 [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1946—O—687657
