---
title: U.S. Position on Viet-Nam poster, PPB-331 (English, Manila)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-position-on-viet-nam-ppb-331-english-manila-1965/
description: A five-panel folded English sheet headed 'The United States Position on Viet-Nam', marked 'Please post on bulletin board'.
section: Collection
---

1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/)
2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)
3. U.S. Position on Viet-Nam poster, PPB-331 (English, Manila)

[![U.S. Position on Viet-Nam poster, PPB-331, 1965 US poster: A five-panel folded English sheet headed 'The United States](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-position-on-viet-nam-ppb-331-english-manila-1965.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-position-on-viet-nam-ppb-331-english-manila-1965.jpg)

# U.S. Position on Viet-Nam poster, PPB-331 (English, Manila)

A five-panel folded English sheet headed 'The United States Position on Viet-Nam', marked 'Please post on bulletin board'. Photographs show a U.S. soldier in a beret, villagers amid ruins and a grave, an officer examining captured weapons, missiles, and Marines landing on a beach, with a quotation from President Johnson of 25 March 1965. The tell is card-stacking: chosen images present the U.S. role as a response to a request for help and to concealed aggression.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
The United States Position on VIET-NAM

PLEASE POST ON BULLETIN BOARD

Communist North Viet-Nam has flagrantly violated the 1954 and 1962 Geneva agreements by launching a large-scale, concealed war against South Viet-Nam.

CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE of aggression: captured weapons bearing communist trademark, terrorism and sabotage against civilian population.

At the official request of South Viet-Nam, the United States and other freedom-loving nations of the world have supported the Vietnamese in a concerted struggle to defend life, property and human liberty.

On March 25, 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson said: "It is and it will remain the policy of the United States to furnish assistance to support South Viet-Nam for as long as is required to bring Communist aggression and terrorism under control."

BATTLE-READY U.S. Marines arrive in South Viet-Nam in response to the call for help.

THANKS TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE FOR THEIR DETERMINATION IN PROTECTING FREEDOM IN V.N. [banner in photograph; remaining words illegible]

SUPPLEMENT TO FREE WORLD VOL. XIV NO. 4 APRIL 1965

5-700 (12)
```

Banner text inside the last photograph is partly illegible.

[← Heraldo Grafico poster, May 1965 issue (Spanish wall newspaper distributed in San Salvador)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/heraldo-grafico-may-san-salvador-1965/) [Kennedy, Years of Lightning poster (Japanese, Tokyo) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kennedy-years-of-lightning-poster-tokyo-japanese-1965/)

## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques

- [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer)
- [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account.
- [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking)
- [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account.
- [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus)
- [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page.
- [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities)
- [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.