It's up to us
Long horizontal banner: 'IT'S UP TO US' in large navy capitals between two red panels, each with a white roundel carrying the eagle and stars. The first-person plural fuses the viewer with the national effort; the sheet names no specific task, so the technique is faint.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office for Emergency Management, Division of Information
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Theme
- Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 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)
Office for Emergency Management, Division of Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1133 (NAID 514660).
Text on the object
IT'S UP TO US DIVISION OF INFORMATION · OFFICE FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT · WASHINGTON, D. C. DIVISION OF INFORMATION · OFFICE FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT · WASHINGTON, D. C. [imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : [illegible]]
