Content note: US wartime poster in Spanish with caricatures of Axis leaders, shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. Why
![La Unión es la Fuerza [Union Is Strength], 1941 US poster: A handshake between a worker and a helmeted soldier rises over](../images/us-ociaa-la-union-es-la-fuerza-arias-bernal-1941.jpg)
La Unión es la Fuerza [Union Is Strength]
A handshake between a worker and a helmeted soldier rises over a factory silhouette under the slogan 'Union is strength'. Below, three caricatured Axis leaders with swastika bandages look up in dismay, so the Axis is ridiculed (name-calling) while the slogan names a positive value without specifics (glittering generality).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (El Coordinador de Asuntos 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 (U.S. government work, NARA RG 44 OWI series)
Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; artist Arias Bernal, 1941-1945. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44 (NAID 44268163, 44-PF-832).
Text on the object
LA UNION ES LA FUERZA Arias Bernal Publicado por El Coordinador de Asuntos Interamericanos, Washington, E. U. A.
UNION IS STRENGTH Arias Bernal Published by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Washington, U.S.A.
