!['Unámonos contra la agresión' [Let Us Unite Against Aggression], 1941 US poster: Three fists grip a pole from which a banner](../images/us-ociaa-unamonos-contra-la-agresion-1941.jpg)
'Unámonos contra la agresión' [Let Us Unite Against Aggression]
Three fists grip a pole from which a banner of the American republics' flags hangs, while a black snake coiled around the banner is impaled on the pole's spear tip. Bandwagon: the massed flags and the call 'Let us unite' present joining the hemispheric bloc as the shared, expected course. Name-calling: the aggressor is shown as a snake, a label by image with no named enemy.
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 not named on the sheet
- 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, Empire and colonialism
- 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, 1941-1945. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44 (NAID 44268227, 44-PF-859).
Text on the object
UNÁMONOS CONTRA LA AGRESIÓN Cartel que obtuvo el primer premio en un concurso sobre temas de la unidad de las Américas y en el que participaron artistas de todo el hemisferio. Publicado por el Coordinador de Asuntos Interamericanos Washington, D. C.
LET US UNITE AGAINST AGGRESSION Poster that won first prize in a contest on themes of the unity of the Americas, in which artists from the whole hemisphere took part. Published by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs Washington, D. C.
