'Les Amériques Unies pour le Progrès et la Victoire' (US poster in French)
A US soldier and a Latin American soldier shake hands before a globe centred on the Americas, with aircraft, artillery, a tank and trucks behind them and a mother and children seated below. The banner 'The Americas united for progress and victory' is a virtue-word slogan (glittering generalities), and the surrounding calendar border of saints' portraits with feast days borrows religious authority for the war aim (transfer).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (Bureau du Coordinateur des Affaires Inter-américaines), Washington
- 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, Religion
- 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 (U.S. government work, NARA RG 44 OWI series)
Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, c. 1942. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44 (NAID 44268167, 44-PF-834).
Text on the object
LES AMÉRIQUES UNIES POUR LE PROGRÈS ET LA VICTOIRE JANVIER FÉVRIER MARS AVRIL MAI JUIN JUILLET AOÛT SEPTEMBRE OCTOBRE NOVEMBRE DÉCEMBRE Publié par le Bureau du Coordinateur des Affaires Inter-américaines, Washington, D. C.
THE AMERICAS UNITED FOR PROGRESS AND VICTORY JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER Published by the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Washington, D.C.
