![A União Faz a Força [Union Makes Strength], 1940 US poster: A handshake between a worker and a helmeted soldier](../images/us-ociaa-a-uniao-faz-a-forca-arias-bernal-portuguese-1940.jpg)
A União Faz a Força [Union Makes Strength]
A handshake between a worker and a helmeted soldier is overprinted on a factory skyline under the slogan 'Union Makes Strength'. Below, three cartoon Axis leaders with swastika-marked bandages and insignia look up at it, drawn as small, comic and bruised; the caricature is the name-calling tell, the abstract slogan the glittering generality.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1940
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (Coordenador de Assuntos Interamericanos), Washington; artist Arias Bernal
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Labor
- 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 Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (US federal government work)
Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; artist Arias Bernal. National Archives and Records Administration, NAID 44268139, local identifier 44-PF-821.
Text on the object
A UNIÃO FAZ A FORÇA Publicado pelo Coordenador de Assuntos Interamericanos, E. U. A.
UNION MAKES STRENGTH Published by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, U.S.A.
