Content note: US wartime poster in Spanish with caricatures of Axis figures, including a Japanese figure drawn with exaggerated lips, shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. Why
![Unidos Para la Victoria [United for Victory], 1941 US poster: A red V with two smiling faces, one in a steel helmet and one](../images/us-ociaa-unidos-para-la-victoria-arias-bernal-spanish-1941.jpg)
Unidos Para la Victoria [United for Victory]
A red V with two smiling faces, one in a steel helmet and one in a wide-brimmed hat, towers over three sprawled, wide-eyed caricatured Axis figures (two with swastikas, one bandaged and bespectacled) under the headline 'Unidos para la victoria'. The tell: the enemy is reduced to a comic, helpless ridicule (name-calling), while the headline presents united allies as the side that is winning (bandwagon).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Washington, D.C.; 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
- Theme
- War and the military
- 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. National Archives and Records Administration, NAID 44268229, local identifier 44-PF-860.
Text on the object
UNIDOS PARA LA VICTORIA Publicado por El Coordinador de Asuntos Interamericanos, Washington, E.U.A. [signature:] ARIAS
UNITED FOR VICTORY Published by the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, Washington, U.S.A. [signature:] ARIAS
